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
