Break Away
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Single
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Break Away / Celebrate The News
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Appeared On
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Written By
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Brian Wilson/Reggie Dunbar
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Produced By
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Brian and Murry Wilson
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Lead Vocals
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Carl (on the verses), Al (on the choruses) (with Brian and Mike)
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Recorded On
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March 31 and April 23, 1969
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Length
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2:56
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Notes
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- Released as a single, as the Beach Boys were still obliged to Capitol for one more single.
- This is a tremendous song and a personal favorite, the vocals are out of this world. Unfortunately it bombed as a single.
- Al claims that Brian "underproduced and undersold the ending of the record."
- Reggie Dunbar is a pseudonym for Murry Wilson. The copywright notices list Brian as the only writer.
- Chords
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C......................................Dm7
Break break shakeaway break breakaway
Gm7.......C7...........Fmaj7.F...F/E...Dm7...G7...Gm7/C...C7...D7
Do what do what I wanna do
Gm7................C7.................A7..............Dm
Time will not wait for me, time is my destiny
G...........................C....................C/B...........Bb
Why change the part of me that has to be free
Gm7................C7.................A7...............Dm
The love that passed me by, I found no reason why
G......................C.......C/B..................Bb
But now each day is filled with the love
...........................Gm..........................Bbmaj7.............G7sus....G7
That very same love, that passed me by, and that is why
............C..............................Dm7.........................Gm7...........C7.....Fmaj7..F
I can breakaway from that lonely life, and I can do what I wanna do
F/E..Dm7...........G7..........Gm7/C.......C7.........D7
And breakaway from that empty life and my world is new
Gm7......................C7..............A7...................Dm
When I laid down on my bed, I heard voices in my head
G............................C.........C/B.......Bb
Telling me now "Hey it's only a dream"
Gm7..............C7..............A7..............Dm
The more I thought of it, I had been out of it
G.........................C.....C/B..............Bb
And here's the answer I found instead
...........................................................Gm
(Baby baby) found out it was in my head
.......................................................Bbmaj7
(Baby baby) found out it was my head
............................................................G7sus...G7
(Baby baby) found out it was in my head
....................C.......................Dm7.............................Gm7................C7..........Fmaj7..F
And I can breakaway to the better life where the shackles never hold me down
.......F/E....Dm7............G7.........Gm7/C.....C7.......D7
I'm gonna make a way for each happy day as my life turns around
Bb........................................................Gm
Oh boy you jump for joy when you breakaway)
Bb................Gm
Breakaway, breakaway
Bb.................................................................Gm
Feel the vibrations and all the sensations breakaway
Bb.................................................................Gm
Feel the vibrations and all the sensations breakaway
Chart prepared by Francis Greene