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G
Sonny abandoned his car last night,
C
Had a meeting on the decks with a light blue Monterey.
G
To breakaway.
G
Sonny was playing all his cards last night, in a hotel room,
C G
he dealt his life away, to breakaway.
D G
Now the promises and the lies, they demand it.
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Let the hearts that have been broken, stand,
G A Csus9 D G
As the price you pay, to breakaway, oh breakaway,
C G
Oh ronde, ronde, ronde, ray, oh breakaway.
G
Janie slipped from behind the bar last night.
C G
Cashed out and walked onto the streets, rainy and gray, to breakaway.
G C
Janie slid into a car last night, in a parking lot, she gave her soul away,
G
to breakaway.
G
Bobby lay, beneath a sheet of stars last night,
C G
His back on the blacktop, still warm from the heat of day, breakaway,
G
Bobby went down, hard last night, saw a shooting star,
C G
As the evening light, slipped away.
Written by Bruce Springsteen