Weekly Shinedown - Song Thirteen - Breaking Inside!

Hey There!

My next Shinedown song, Breaking Inside, was also discovered on Monday 1st September 2014, and it was also the very last Shinedown song that I added to my Spotify playlist on this day. I honestly can't remember the reason that I added this song to my playlist, but I was obviously drawn to this song because I have listened to it loads of times.

On Sunday 21st September 2014, I did actually hear this sing in my Uncle Peter's car on the same day as he played Call Me. However, it was right at the start of the journey, before he had dropped anyone else off. So I was singing, and partially miming the song to my friends Leah and Liz because I knew all of the words, and obviously, they were quite impressed with me.

I also heard this song another time in my Uncle Peter's car. It was when he was driving me, Georgia, Leah and Liz to a Starbucks on the motorway so that we could all get a hot chocolate and have a chat. It was a really great time, and on the way there, he was playing some Shinedown songs for us. The only song that everyone knew was Second Chance, but he played a variety of them, and he was testing me on some of them, and Breaking Inside was actually one of them.

On Shinedown's third album, The Sound Of Madness, the last track on the album is a different version of Breaking Inside, which features Lzzy Hale of Halestorm, which I also like.

I was recently looking at the chords for this song, and apart from the really complicated introduction, they don't seem that difficult, because it mainly consists of G, D, A and E, but it is the B chord that is quite difficult for me. This isn't the sort of song that I would sing, but I bet that it would be a good one to sing as a duet if I could do Lzzy Hale's part with someone else.

So from here on, my Shinedown journey will continue further. Please comment below how your Shinedown journey started and developed as I would lose to hear.

I'll see you all next Thursday!

Lois xx

P.S. I'll leave the lyrics to Breaking Inside below incase you're interested!

I caught a chill 
and it's still frozen on my skin 
I think about why 
I'm alone, by myself 
No one else to explain 
how far do I go? 
No one knows 
If the end is so much better, why don't we just live forever? 
Don't tell me I'm the last one in line 
Don't tell me I'm too late this time 

I don't want to live 
To waste another day 
Underneath the shadow of mistakes I made 
Cause I feel like I'm breaking inside 
I don't want to fall and say I lost it all 
'Cause baby there's a part of me to hit the wall 
Leaving pieces of me behind 
And I feel like I'm breaking inside 

Out here, nothings clear 
Except the moment I decided to move on and I ignited 
Disappear into the fear 
You know there ain't no comin' back 
When you're still carrying the past 
You can't erase, separate 
Cigarette in my hand, 
Hope you all understand 

I won't be the last one in line 
I finally figured out what's mine 

I don't want to live 
To waste another day 
Underneath the shadow of mistakes I made 
'Cause I feel like I'm breaking inside 
I don't want to fall and say I lost it all 
'Cause baby there's a part of me to hit the wall 
Leaving pieces of me behind 
Leaving pieces of me behind 
And I feel like I'm breaking inside 

I won't be the last one in line, 
I finally figured out what's mine 

I don't want to live 
To waste another day 
Underneath the shadow of mistakes I made 
'Cause I feel like I'm breaking inside 
I don't want to fall and say I lost it all 
'Cause baby there's a part of me to hit the wall 
Leaving pieces of me behind 
Leaving pieces of me behind 
And I feel like I'm breaking inside 
And I feel like I'm breaking, 
I feel like i'm breaking inside