Oddly enough (or perhaps not so) a plethora of songs, some pretty good and some quite obscure, are dedicated to lungs and airflow. An incomplete sampling:

• "Breath" (Breaking Benjamin)
• "Breath" (Cledus T. Judd)
• "Breath" (The Cure)
• "Breath" (Jeremy Camp)
• "Breath" (Nelly Furtado)
• "Breath" (Pearl Jam)
• "Breath of Heaven" (Amy Grant)
• "Breathe" (Faith Hill)
• "Breathe" (Michelle Branch)
• "Breathe" (Pink Floyd)
• "Breathe (Cruxshadows)
• "Breathe (2 AM)" (Anna Nalick)
• "Breathing the Breath" (Matt Redman)
• "Breathless" (All 4 One)
• "Breathless" (Corinne Bailey Rae)
• "Breathless" (The Corrs)
• "Breathless" (Dio)
• "Breathless" (Jerry Lee Lewis)
• "Deep Breath" (32 Leaves)
• "Every Breath You Take" (The Police)
• "I'm Breathless" (album, Madonna)
• "Locomotive Breath" (Jethro Tull)
• "Lose My Breath" (Destiny's Child)
• "Take a Breath" (David Gilmour)
• "Whiskey Breath" (Devotchka)
• "You Leave Me Breathless" (Ella Fitzgerald)

Apparently for lyricists resipration = inspiration ...

(thanks to running comrade Ruth for teaching me the British-English term "out of puff" for shortness of breath; cf. LyricNotes (29 Mar 2002), ...)

TopicLanguage - TopicPoetry - TopicEntertainment - 2007-04-07

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