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Breathing Fine

from Prisoners by Jean-Paul De Roover

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This is a cover song originally by Oren Lavie. I fell in love with its darkness and would play it on repeat for months. Once I started preparing to tour the LOSS album in 2020 I knew I wanted to do a version of it with a live band. Because of the tour being cut short due to COVID we then had some time to develop this full-band version whose lyrics are even more haunting given the state of the world.

lyrics

The feeling of falling is still so familiar
The pain in my stomach is better, but baby
Bright colours have faded too early this year
And strangers look stranger 'round here

The flowers you’ve left here have died in the heat
I see parts of your face now on girls in the street
I hope you like your new neighbours, don’t sleep with every new stranger
It’s lonely, but only at night

But most of the time
I'm breathing fine
Most of the time
I'm breathing fine
I smile at familiar faces
I talk to myself in empty spaces
But breathing is fine
Most of the time

It’s half of me baby that still is infected
No water has cleansed it, no sleep has erased it
Towards and aways-from, this room is a cage
And things I’m trying to write you, they die on the page

But most of the time
I’m breathing fine
Most of the time
I’m breathing fine
I’ve played through the great composers
I got through the nights
On wine and prose, and
Breathing is fine
Most of the time

What else can I tell you?
I just turned thirty-one
The boy grew no wings
So he’s learned how to run
I hope you keep out of danger
Now, stranger to stranger
It’s lonely, but only at night

And most of the time
I’m breathing fine
Most of the time
I’m breathing fine

Breathing is fine
Most of the time

credits

from Prisoners, released May 14, 2021
Produced by Jean-Paul De Roover
Recorded/Mixed by Jean-Paul De Roover at Blueprints
Mastered by Jon Tornblom at Transparent Mastering

Originally written by Oren Lavie

Jean-Paul De Roover - Vocals, Electric Guitar, Acoustic Guitar, Piano, Synths
Jared Schaaf - Electric Guitar, Noise
Mack Davis - Bass
Scott Edwards - Drums

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