Sia – Breathe Me April 25, 2008
Posted by admin in : Songs , trackbackSia Furler. An interesting young lady. After releasing a hit single in 2000 (nope, I don’t remember it either) and becoming the vocalist for a Zero 7 album, she then went mental. Completely. In her own words, “No seriously, I needed therapy and everything.”
It’s a good job she kept making music, as she then went on to create “Breathe Me”, one of those songs that really grabs your attention. Piano-led; gasped, breatheless vocals; a feeling of claustrophobia & desperate need.
Some elements of her life would explain the feelings behind this song – after three years fronting a band called Crisp, Sia packed her bags and headed off on a round the world trip, and after agreeing to meet up in London with the man she describes as her ‘first true love’, a week before she arrived, he was run down and killed by a black cab on Kensington High Street.
By her own admission, “I was pretty fucked up after Dan died. I couldn’t really feel anything. I could intellectualise a lot of stuff; that I had a purpose, that I was loved, but I couldn’t actually feel anything”
Listen. Feel.
“Help, I have done it again, I have been here many times before. Hurt myself again today, and the worst part is there’s no-one else to blame. Be my friend, hold me, wrap me up, unfold me. I am small and needy. Warm me up, and breathe me.”
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Sia – Breathe Me
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I’m so glad you posted this, I love this song. Remember listening to it a lot at the end of last summer.
She also did a great cover of Paranoid Android with tear jerking cellos, I swear it manages to be more depressing than the Radiohead version.
There is a video on you tube of her singing this song at a radio station. It brings me to tears every time i watch it. I’ll remember the song every once in a while and listen to it, and of course that leads to the obsessive listening to everything Sia
Hits me in my feelings-bladder.
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sia is great! her voice is so unique and her melodies and lyrics go together so perfectly. i just got her album” some people have real problems” and i really love her song “Death by chocolate”; also check out sia performing “Soon we’ll be found” with her colored hands and everything(youtube)-she’s simply amazing.AND she’s Australien;D
My Lord… I always cry, unstoppable, guaranteed!! So BEAUTIFULL!!
“Hold me, wrap me up
Unfold me
I am small
I’m needy
Warm me up
And breathe me”
Perfect combination of words, great song.
You should listen to Sia – I’m in here also a special one.
Ive been listening to Sia for about a year now and I’ve gotta say she’s fantastic, Breathe Me is a great song but its only one of many wonderful listens. All the interviews with her show her bubbly and awesome personality too! She definitely has my vote!