"Up For Breath" genre: Alternative General
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	Based upon a simple chord progression this pretty lament about life gradually builds with a second guitar part and more pensive harmony. It includes an interesting bridge-chorus combination.
	Label: Broken Ladder Inc. Credits: Clay Schoentrup
	Story Behind the Song After relocating from Kansas to Tempe, Arizona in the summer of 2001 I was staying temporarily in a home owned by the father of a close friend. Soon thereafter I made friends with a guy who had worked in Lawrence, the Kansas town where I had gone to college for a few years. He and I, often along with a friend from KU who was doing an internship at Intel in Arizona, would often go out and have a few beers, and then I'd come home to drunkenly ponder my predicament and my station in life. Within a few weeks I came up with a simple chord progression that I wanted to make into a song. After experimenting for a few days I could not come up with any lyrics. So I sat down and penned the simplest thing I could--a reflection of what had been going on in my day to day life. So once finished, I sloppily recorded it within an hour or so with the most basic computer-based recording program. The vocals weren't great but oh well. Lyrics I woke up this morning then wanted to go back up for breath. Intoxicated epiphanies, lates nights.. then a lonely bed. Regurgitation of all the day's long hard thoughts. Then comforting silence in..not having to think at all (going to sleep). A sweet man, head full of regret, tries to face the new day, head into the wind. I don't think anyone can see through this smile: Do you hide too? Do you hide too? I hope they can't see that I'm breaking inside. I'm smiling, I'm hiding. I've got some friends; they tell me that I'm okay. I shrug and nervously laugh, and slowly I turn away. I'll go out later for a long soothing drive, gaze toward the land, and catch the tears in my lap. It's raining, and it won't ever end. I wish I could go back, and live life again. (except not in poverty and neglect and all the other horrors that have sucked so much of my life away) --- INTERLUDE/PRE-SOLO --- I turned into me, now how could this be?? I'd gladly improve myself by wiping out all memory. I want to find a mirror image of me (as in a relationship prospect) (someone who also is) struggling to hide from reality --- SOLO --- I'll fight the sorrow and ride out the days, I won't die, I won't die. Under the ocean and begging to leave, I'll be here, and I'll sing. (as in, I'll live and take what joy I can from life even in the face of overwhealming pain)

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