Leave me something to breathe!

Hello!  I'm sorry that I don't post enough....
It was a nice day...
I was at the beach yesterday...
I was walking around shooping and biking today....
I also did some gardening....
Where I live you have to suck up all the summer possible because it's winter for nine months of the year...
I CAN'T SPEND ALL MY TIME ON THE COMPUTER!!!!!!! >.<
So if I don't post as much for the next two months, you understand why.

Anyways, today I chose a song from my day 10 post, A Song I Fall Asleep To.  I can fall asleep to them not because they're boring, but rather because they're soothing.  The song from the post that I'm going to talk about is "Breathing" by Kate Bush.  When I first heard this song, I thought that it was so beautiful, much like Kate's other songs on her albums.  I soon learnt that this one like others have very dark meaning to them.  If a child in her mother's womb was capable of speaking, this is what she would cry out if her mother was a smoke addict.  The toxic fumes from the cigarette makes it's way to the child, smothering her completely.  She is incapable of breathing.  The is nothing TO breath but smoke.  She wants to be able to breath.  She wants to live.

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 it in,
Breathing my mother in,
Breathing my beloved in,
Breathing it in,
Breathing her nicotine,
Breathing it in,
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 it in,
Breathing my mother in,
Breathing my beloved in,
Breathing it in,
Breathing her nicotine,
Breathing it in,
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.


Another dark side to this song seems to be about nuclear after maths.  Perhaps a nuclear war took place either recently and life is quickly, or it's been years and people are still suffering.  It could also be the after maths of a n explosion that let off some radiation, but was too small to be considered a nuclear bomb.  All the same, people are suffering no matter the size of the explosion is.


I hope you like the song!