Television - Live '75 - Breakin' In My Heart - Cleveland (The Piccadilly Inn) +lyrics

Описание: "Breakin' In My Heart" never made it onto an official Television release but Tom recorded it on his first solo album "Tom Verlaine", 1979. Only a few Television songs ever made it onto Verlaine solo albums ("The Grip of Love" is another one - thanks go to You Tuber linclink for reminding of this factoid) although there were a lot of unreleased Television songs he could have potentially used. In a '79 interview Tom said that after Television's second album "Adventure" came out, he'd decided he'd put "Breakin' In My Heart" on the next album, whether it was a Television album or a solo one.

This was recorded at The Piccadilly Inn, Cleveland, July 25, 1975. Fred Smith had replaced Richard Hell on bass a few months earlier.
After the guitar intro on Breakin' in My Heart, an audience member is heard to say "Wow!" I concur. "Awesome" being too overused a word, how about "sublime" instead?

Except for a couple of lines & chorus almost all the words to this Television version are different than on Tom's solo recording of the song. I wanted to know what the lyrics here are. Many lines are hard to discern easily or at all, but here's a best effort to transcribe as much as I could, with headphones, equalizer, & repeated listenings - but no guarantee they're 100% correct.!

After listening to a couple of other Television live versions of "Breakin' in My Heart" (this is the best one I've heard so far. I've uploaded another example from a NYC show at "Mother's"), it seems Tom, on this song in particular, used to apparently improvise some lyrics on the spot, as the words are somewhat different each time.
He even seems to admit so here. Lyrics QUOTE: "I'm makin', & I'm makin' it up"!

BREAKIN' IN MY HEART (attempted lyrics transcription)
Thunder, thunder & lightnin'
When I first camped out I felt so sick
All the boys lit a fire just pretendin'
Ah, there was hot dogs, & there was songs
So I move off, off to the woods
I was tired of stories
And then in the woods, & onto the pine needles
A soft hiss, soft hiss
Soft hiss of the rain
All I could feel was the drizzle
I could feel the lightnin' shift the edges
It all reminded me of somethin'
It reminded me of somethin' that-
It gave me a memory of somethin' I'd never seen before
It made me want to laugh & throw myself up whole
And the edges shift
I say uh-oh
I knew I was gonna catch Hell tonight
That little crack split
Small cones, small cones chew up my legs
Small clouds beat on it
[ ? ] so I started, started to flick
Started to flick, flick, flick, flick, flick, flick...(etc.)
Started to flick, flick to start that fire
I hear the camp [?] boys [?] tellin' -
And these corny ghost stories
And I - I said "man, you know I'm through listenin! "
I said "man, stop breakin' in my heart! "
[ ? ? ? ]
Breakin' in my heart
[ ? ? ? ]
Breakin' in my heart
It may hum & get a buzz
It ain't breakin' in my heart
All the nights I improvise
And I'm breakin' in my heart
Laugh at the Horsehead [ ? ] undergrad, it goes
Breakin' in my heart
I say when you play it again, we'll do it again
Breakin' in my heart
This slow tryst kiss
Breakin' in my heart
I'm makin', & I'm makin' it up
It's always breakin' in my heart
And the fool, oh boy [ ? ]
Breakin' in my heart
All the lies, the drunken lies that go
Breakin' in my heart
I ain't so [sleepy?], I learn the ways
It's breakin' in my heart
Oh baby, no treasure without pleasure
Breakin' in my heart
Livin' far, far, far-
The kingdom's 'cross the road
Breakin' in my heart
[? ? ?]
Breakin' in my heart
[? ? ?]
Breakin' in my heart
All a-ga-ga, & the sixth time, was it
Breakin' in my heart
I'm not searchin', you know I ain't lookin' for this [time?]
Breakin' in my heart
I just pointed out a moment of gold!
Breakin' in my heart
Breakin' in my heart...(etc.)