(These lyrics were originally from Andrew Marvick's
The Garden.)
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"Breathing"
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Written by Kate Bush
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- Outside
- Gets inside
- Through her skin.
- I've been out before
- But this time it's much safer in.
- Last night in the sky,
- Such a bright light.
- My radar send me danger
- But my instincts tell me to keep
- Breathing,
-
- ("Out, in, out, in, out, in...")
- Breathing,
- Breathing my mother in,
- Breathing my beloved in,
- Breathing,
- Breathing her nicotine,
- Breathing,
- Breathing the fall-out in,
- Out in, out in, out in, out in.
- We've lost our chance.
- We're the first and the last, ooh,
- After the blast.
- Chips of Plutonium
- Are twinkling in every lung.
- I love my
- Beloved, ooh,
- All and everywhere,
- Only the fools blew it.
- You and me
- Knew life itself is
- Breathing,
-
- ("Out, in, out, in, out...")
- Breathing,
- Breathing my mother in,
- Breathing my beloved in,
- Breathing,
- Breathing her nicotine,
- Breathing,
- Breathing the fall-out in,
- Out in, out in, out in, out in,
- Out in, out in, out in, out...
- ("Out!")
-
- "In point of fact it is possible to tell the
- ("Out!")
-
- difference between a small nuclear explosion and
- a large one by a very simple method. The calling
- card of a nuclear bomb is the blinding flash that
- is far more dazzling than any light on earth--brighter
- even than the sun itself--and it is by the duration
- of this flash that we are able to determine the size
- ("What are we going to do without?")
-
- of the weapon. After the flash a fireball can be
- seen to rise, sucking up under it the debris, dust
- and living things around the area of the explosion,
- and as this ascends, it soon becomes recognisable
- as the familiar "mushroom cloud". As a demonstration
- of the flash duration test let's try and count the
- number of seconds for the flash emitted by a very
- small bomb; then a more substantial, medium-sized
- bomb; and finally, one of our very powerful,
- "high-yield" bombs
- "What are we going to do without?"
- Ooh please!
- "What are we going to do without?"
- Let me breathe!
- "What are we going to do without?"
- Ooh, Quick!
- "We are all going to die without!"
- Breathe in deep!
- "What are we going to die without?"
- Leave me something to breathe!
- "We are all going to die without!"
- Oh, leave me something to breathe!
- "What are we going to do without?"
- Oh, God, please leave us something to breathe!"
- "We are all going to die without
- Oh, life is--Breathing.
©1980 Kate Bush Music/EMI Music Publ. Ltd.
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