It's wondrous how moments and music can get so intimately entwined that a few bars of a song are enough to carry you back to the moment that song was playing. "Breathe (2 AM)" by Anna Nalick is one such song for me. I was doing 36 hour days and the nights alone at work were the worse. I kept the radio playing so as to not get swallowed by the darkness and silence. At one time, long into the night, "Breath" came on and 'breath, just breath' became my mantra, the refrain my credo:
'Cause you can't jump the track, we're like cars on a cable
and life's like an hourglass glued to the table,
No one can find the rewind button girl
So just cradle your head in your hands. ...
It got me through more than one night. The 36 hour shifts are long behind me but still, the reminder to 'breath, just breath' remains helpful when the tracks pass through rough terrain ~
Breathe (2 AM)
By Anna Nalick
Two a.m. and she calls me cause I'm still awake
Can you help me unravel my latest mistake
I don't love him, winter just wasn't my season.
Yeah we walk through the doors so accusing their eyes
Like they have any right at all to criticize
Hypocrites you're all here for the very same reason.
'Cause you can't jump the track
We're like cars on a cable and life's like an hourglass glued to the table,
No one can find the rewind button girl
So just cradle your head in your hands.
And breathe, just breathe, whoa breathe just breathe
May he turned twenty one on the base of Fort Bliss
Just today he sat down to the flask in his fist
Ain't been sober since maybe October of last year
Here in town you can tell he's been down for while
But my God it's so beautiful when the boy smiles
Wanna hold him but maybe I'll just sing about it
'Cause you can't jump the track
We're like cars on a cable
And life's like an hourglass glued to the table,
No one can find the rewind button boys so cradle your head in your hands
And breathe, just breathe, whoa breath just breathe
There's a light at each end of this tunnel you shout
'Cause you're just as far in as you'll ever be out
And these mistakes you've made
You'll just make them again if you'll only try turnin' around
Two a.m. and I'm still awake writing this song
If I get it all down on paper it's no longer inside of me threaten' the life it belongs to.
And I feel like I'm naked in front of the crowd
'Cause these words are my diary screamin' out loud
And I know that you'll use them however you want to.
But you can't jump the track
We're like cars on a cable
And life's like an hourglass glued to the table,
No one can find the rewind button now
Sing it if you understand...yeah breath
Just breathe, ohho breathe
Songwriters: ANNA CHRISTINE NALICK
© IMAGEM U.S. LLC , Universal Music Publishing Group
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