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lirik lagu kae tempest - breathe

[intro]
can you drop the mic down a bit? yeah

[verse 1]
when i stand at the mic
the whole world i have known
is contained in the breath before speaking
my life condensed to a sentence:
i’m just trying to be someone the child i used to be
could believe in
breathe in, odd kid getting even
the evening’s a dream
that the morning can’t sleep through
a day in the life, or a life full of days
i started to writе
when my life was a maze i was lost in
looking for a way out of thе ways i didn’t want
but what you want isn’t something you can choose
it chooses you
(take my body, take it all)
(what are you?)
what are you?
that was the question
but what was the answer?
trying to make sense was a senseless endeavour
head down, stick to the plan
the plan was, sit down with a pen in your hand
[verse 2]
what i found when i picked up the mic was profound
new ground
the soundworld was basslines
and sticking my head in the bassbins at raves was elation
saved by the act of creation
sn~tched from the jaws of destruction
the crossroads were clear
write or go under
yeah, it was messy for a minute
the only thing that made sense was my lyrics
i was in the rave fighting demons
when the boy got stabbed, started bleeding
and i was so high that i couldn’t even help him
i just stared at the blood
on my trainers for ages
sat down in the corner, waiting for what?
once something’s happened, you can’t make it stop
five years later, alfie got shot in the stomach
i should have been there but i wasn’t
what are you made of?
how many selves do you carry?
how many h~lls must a person inhabit
before they can see their life hangs in the balance
if you want it
eventually you’ve got to make it happen
or it swallows you into its folds
a rogue planet exploding
but on the outside, i was nothing
too big for the city i lived in
my spirit was hurting
for something i couldn’t determine
my body was alien to me
persuaded myself
that rhyming would lift me
out of the cage i was trapped in
back when i used to spit bars at the bus stop
cap down, hood up
clap twice, wake up
later, stage~fright, shaking, taking
questions from someone from the paper
when did i become a writer?
i was just a drunk with a bag and a lighter
you are what you do repeatedly
you are who the people see
but i was shook
when my friends were f~cking girls
i was sitting in the corner, scribbling in my book
too stoned to get up
too scared to look at the mess of my heartscape
bright lights, dark place
thinking, i’m going to make it one day
[verse 3]
hiding in plain sight, rhyming to take flight
and leave my numbness behind
up there on the stage
wasn’t bound by the same rules that drowned me
the days poured down and the nights were loud
blink twice and the world disappeared
six weeks on the road and it’s ringing in my ears
beers for fears, beers for tears for years
and my body was made out of a million stars

[verse 4]
everybody down had dropped
and everybody danced
i was in the van on tour
when my ex~wife said i can’t do it anymore
i never went home
just kept settling the score
with a mic in my hand and a song to roar
dysphoria
didn’t know the name or the symptoms
going through the motions
trying to fit it all in
i was touring three shows
trying to draft a novel
looking out the windows at the motorway
how do i tell my story?
it don’t begin and end with me
my story is my folks, folks coming into london
looking for a way to be free
my story is my sisters’ kids
with the listless edge i recognise
attention deficit
head in five thoughts at the same time
i take my place
in the long line of people whose voices
shake in my voice when i raise my voice
to say my words
eighty thousand people in a field
holding up my mic like a shield
holding up my mic like a shield
it’s real
[verse 5]
i used to be a boy when i was young
then i hit p~b~rty, i had to be a girl
i really, really tried to become
someone who belonged in the world
and then it really started kicking off with work
i was writing like i’d been desperate to do
so many people couldn’t live a dream
or live a minute without screaming
for the troubles they were carrying within them
and here i was travelling the world
and being asked for my opinion
but inside was a cavern bigger than the solar system
i was different, i could feel it i was different
it was k!lling every sensation, it was hidden
it was taking up too much room
it was gripping my windpipe and stopping my words
i was on stage giving people my heart
but my heart wasn’t even concerned
my heart was alone in the dark of my ribs
trying to talk me into doing what eventually i did
what’s the story here?
live your f~cking life
because no one’s going to know if you kept it all inside
when you lose the will to go
another day, another night
everything has changed
and everyone i am, is everyone i’m made of
and everyone i’m made of is everyone i’ve loved
and everyone i’ve loved is everyone i’ve judged
like they weren’t going to love me if they knew what i was
but what was i?

[verse 6]
neither and both
getting closer to myself
and time now
i’ve finally spoken my mind
and the child i was
sitting there writing rhymes to eternity
can put down their pen and believe in me
the child i was
writing rhymes to eternity
can put down their pen and believe
breathe

[outro]
take my body, take it all
there’s n0body you can call
take my body, take it all
ain’t n0body you can call
oh~ohh, oh~ohh, oh
frame me in forever
take time to leave pleasure

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