BREAK THE FEELING [INTRO — dirty electric guitar riff / kick drum / handclaps] Ohhh— Yeah. You keep waiting on your heart to agree. That's your problem. [VERSE 1] Woke up with your name still running through my head / Same old ache sleeping on my side of the bed / I could call you up / I could start that wheel / But wanting you back don't make wanting you real / I learned something, baby, when I learned to leave— You don't have to lose the memory / You just gotta break the feeling. [PRE-CHORUS] HEY! Let it hurt! Let it burn! Let your body finally learn— You can miss somebody and never return! [CHORUS] BREAK! THE! FEELING! Don't wait for it to fade away! BREAK! THE! FEELING! Put your boots down— walk anyway! Your heart can scream / your hands can shake / you can want that love and still not break! You don't need another reason— BREAK! THE! FEELING! [GUITAR HIT] Yeah! [VERSE 2] I used to think healing meant I wouldn't care / That I'd hear your name and feel nothing there / But that's not freedom— now I understand / Freedom is feeling everything and still controlling your hands / Don't dial that number / don't open that door / You already know what's waiting there for— YOU! [PRE-CHORUS] Let it hurt! Let it burn! Baby, let the lesson turn! You can love somebody and STILL not return! [CHORUS] BREAK! THE! FEELING! Don't wait for it to fade away! BREAK! THE! FEELING! Put your boots down— walk anyway! Your heart can scream / your hands can shake / you can want that love and still not break! You don't need another reason— BREAK! THE! FEELING! [GUITAR SOLO — nasty blues-rock bends / pounding drums] [BRIDGE — drums drop low] Listen. Feelings ain't commandments. Missing ain't a message. Lonely ain't a reason to go digging through the wreckage. And love— love ain't always telling you to stay. Sometimes love is what you carry while you're walking... the hell... AWAY! [DRUM CRASH] [FINAL CHORUS — FULL BAND] BREAK! THE! FEELING! I don't care if it takes all night! BREAK! THE! FEELING! Turn that hurt into gasoline and LIGHT! Let your heart scream! Let your hands shake! Want what you want— but DON'T YOU BREAK! You don't need another reason! BREAK! THE! FEELING! [CHANT — gang vocals] BREAK IT! (Break the feeling!) BREAK IT! (Break the feeling!) MISS 'EM— AND KEEP MOVING! LOVE 'EM— AND KEEP MOVING! WANT 'EM— AND KEEP MOVING! [FINAL GUITAR CRASH] BREAK. THE. FEELING. [OUTRO — amp feedback / one last kick] Yeah. Now go.
