Need help regarding Just Breathe

IGOTSHIT15 · October 2010

My buddy is trying to convince his soon to be wife to let Just Breathe be their wedding song. She wants to know the meaning behind it before committing - I don't know what she is thinking, a simple yes should have been fine. After some browsing on the net i found this article but any additional help is always appreciated.

I told him to go with I got shit....he laughed, she didn't

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red mos · October 2010

IGOTSHIT15 wrote:

My buddy is trying to convince his soon to be wife to let Just Breathe be their wedding song. She wants to know the meaning behind it before committing - I don't know what she is thinking, a simple yes should have been fine. After some browsing on the net i found this article but any additional help is always appreciated.

I told him to go with I got shit....he laughed, she didn't

http://entertainment.gather.com/viewArt ... 4978185638

I'll try and throw in my 2 cents here. I like to think I'm good a disecting songs for lyrical analysis, so here is my take:

Just Breathe reflects life in general. By that I mean we all go through ups and downs about every obsticle in life.
Life is the hardest thing to live. There are going to be good times, bad times, arguments, hardships, lay offs from a job, deaths, ect.

I think the song is indicating life is short, enjoy what you have, and embrase whatever comes your way. Shall the obsticle be positive or a road block of negativity, live for today and the present and with faith everything will have a way of working out. We all hit bumps in the road, even in marraige, nothing is perfect. It's a song about reality, a song about life, and a song indicating embrace the world and everything and everyone around it. I guess it could be used as a wedding song, simply because it's tackling the reality of life. Regardless, of bumps in the road, you have each other, and with a positive outlook towards the future, and staying in faith, things will get better.

I suppose this could be a good wedding song choice, if the song was described to her in this way: You have each other; obsticles are gonna come, we will see it through both good and bad.

bazzer · October 2010

red mos wrote:

IGOTSHIT15 wrote:

My buddy is trying to convince his soon to be wife to let Just Breathe be their wedding song. She wants to know the meaning behind it before committing - I don't know what she is thinking, a simple yes should have been fine. After some browsing on the net i found this article but any additional help is always appreciated.

I told him to go with I got shit....he laughed, she didn't

http://entertainment.gather.com/viewArt ... 4978185638

I'll try and throw in my 2 cents here. I like to think I'm good a disecting songs for lyrical analysis, so here is my take:

Just Breathe reflects life in general. By that I mean we all go through ups and downs about every obsticle in life.
Life is the hardest thing to live. There are going to be good times, bad times, arguments, hardships, lay offs from a job, deaths, ect.

I think the song is indicating life is short, enjoy what you have, and embrase whatever comes your way. Shall the obsticle be positive or a road block of negativity, live for today and the present and with faith everything will have a way of working out. We all hit bumps in the road, even in marraige, nothing is perfect. It's a song about reality, a song about life, and a song indicating embrace the world and everything and everyone around it. I guess it could be used as a wedding song, simply because it's tackling the reality of life. Regardless, of bumps in the road, you have each other, and with a positive outlook towards the future, and staying in faith, things will get better.

I suppose this could be a good wedding song choice, if the song was described to her in this way: You have each other; obsticles are gonna come, we will see it through both good and bad.

For better, for worse,
For richer, for poorer,
In sickness and in health...

mookeywrench · October 2010

It's about all the highs and lows in your life meaning nothing when compared to just simply hanging out with someone you love.

jshin · October 2010

Does she like the song?

ryanevolution · October 2010

Just Breathe is a love song.

It is about living with the knowledge that all this will be over while being so thankful and happy its happening now. It is the rawest joy and pain of love. The singer is thankful for having friends and family, yet knows each will eventually die.

The chorus deals with this realization by saying "Did I say I need you? Did I say I want you" realizing he himself will die and wanting to make sure his loved ones knows how he feels. SO often we dont tell the ones we love how we feel about them.

As the song progresses the verses themselves shorten, just like life (i love this poetic aspect of the song)

Then the also very poetic ending of the abrupt silence hanging. Life can end right in the middle of a moment. It is the deep side of love. Its a great wedding song imo. I am playing my first wedding this weekend (I am in the band singing and playing guitar) and we are doing this song.

fox_mulderX · October 2010

lol tell her to listen to the song. the lyrics aren't that deep and they're pretty straight forward.

it's not like we're dissecting a lennon/mccartney here people lol

wolfamongwolves · October 2010

This is from the "Guided Tour to Backspacer" thread, by the eminently wise and perceptive Stip, from the Red Mosquito forum:
viewtopic.php?f=4&t=141478

Dr. Stip Zoidberg wrote:

Just Breathe...
Lyrically this one is going to rise and fall on the sincerity. If you believe him it’s compelling. As stand alone lyrics divorced from the performance they’re not bad, but they’re not great. Other than ‘I’m a lucky man to count on both hands the ones I love’ which I think is just a gorgeous lyric there’s nothing too memorable here. But the approach he’s taking to love is interesting. Like I mentioned earlier this is a mature love song—mature in that it’s speaking to a love that’s long past the initial stage of discovery where everything is white hot and exciting and new. It’s writing from the perspective of a love that, while cooling (as it inevitably will), has plugged all the cracks and settled in the foundations of these people’s lives—the way in which it becomes impossible to live without even as you cease noticing it all the time.

Just Breathe is a quiet moment of reflection—the singer is taking the time to remember, to consciously remind himself, just how fortunate he is to have the gifts he has, and how empty he would be without them. There’s a maturity to this song, a sense of peace, a willingness (a need even) to live in a moment outside of time which isn’t possible until we become comfortable enough with ourselves and the world around us to realize that there are times it is okay to just shut it out and exist for ourselves—that it is within these spaces we find the strength and purpose to fight again. The fact that this moment is shared is also significant. It speaks to the self confidence needed to leave oneself so vulnerable, so dependent on someone else. There are undercurrents of death in this song (every life must end, hold me ‘til I die) but I doubt very much either character is dying. Instead the references to dying and to departures are a reflection of how utterly dependent the main character is on the other person in his life, how lucky he is to have it, and a promise to himself to remember that this cannot last forever and so he must not take it for granted. It’s clear that the person he’s signing to is his rock, his refuge and certainty in a violent and uncertain world, and that this is the most precious thing she can be for him. And so the most romantic line in the whole piece may be the ‘stay with me, let’s just breathe.’ There may not be a purer expression of love than the desire for that person to just be there, to demand nothing more of them other than that they exist.

PureandEasy · October 2010

ryanevolution wrote:

Just Breathe is a love song.

It is about living with the knowledge that all this will be over while being so thankful and happy its happening now. It is the rawest joy and pain of love. The singer is thankful for having friends and family, yet knows each will eventually die.

The chorus deals with this realization by saying "Did I say I need you? Did I say I want you" realizing he himself will die and wanting to make sure his loved ones knows how he feels. SO often we dont tell the ones we love how we feel about them.

As the song progresses the verses themselves shorten, just like life (i love this poetic aspect of the song)

Then the also very poetic ending of the abrupt silence hanging. Life can end right in the middle of a moment. It is the deep side of love. Its a great wedding song imo. I am playing my first wedding this weekend (I am in the band singing and playing guitar) and we are doing this song.

I think Ryan here pretty much nailed it

IGOTSHIT15 · October 2010

I think you just hit the bulls eye....twice

thanks man - and knock em dead at the wedding. If you need inspiration for the wedding I would take Adam Sandlers approach in the wedding singer

Cheers

GardenOfStoned · October 2010

i could be off but every interpretation is a little bit objective. i personally feel like it's a profession of one's love for another. people shouldn't take love for granted because life is too short. eddie starts the song with a line relating to death and also ends it with another line relating to death. all in the middle is how life is too short so love what you have and the sooner you make this realization, the more life you can live. to me it says "you make me totally happy, after all i have been through, i feel lucky to have you in my life, and lets live this life together until the end."

2-feign-reluctance · October 2010

I made an attempt to get the "Imperial March" played when we came into the banquet room. It was vetoed last second in favor of The Darkness "I Believe In A Thing Called Love." Hilarious! We had one Pearl Jam song (Alive) during the end of the 7 hour reception. Amazing!

mfc2006 · October 2010

2-feign-reluctance wrote:

I made an attempt to get the "Imperial March" played when we came into the banquet room. It was vetoed last second in favor of The Darkness "I Believe In A Thing Called Love." Hilarious! We had one Pearl Jam song (Alive) during the end of the 7 hour reception. Amazing!

classic! :thumbup:

we walked out during "In The Colors" by Ben Harper.

2-feign-reluctance · October 2010

mfc2006 wrote:

2-feign-reluctance wrote:

I made an attempt to get the "Imperial March" played when we came into the banquet room. It was vetoed last second in favor of The Darkness "I Believe In A Thing Called Love." Hilarious! We had one Pearl Jam song (Alive) during the end of the 7 hour reception. Amazing!

classic! :thumbup:

we walked out during "In The Colors" by Ben Harper.

That's a good one. Very upbeat and cheery! Happy Cluthe's

justam · October 2010

It makes a good wedding song because it's about loving someone and feeling loved too.

Citizen Zack · October 2010

mfc2006 wrote:

2-feign-reluctance wrote:

I made an attempt to get the "Imperial March" played when we came into the banquet room. It was vetoed last second in favor of The Darkness "I Believe In A Thing Called Love." Hilarious! We had one Pearl Jam song (Alive) during the end of the 7 hour reception. Amazing!

classic! :thumbup:

we walked out during "In The Colors" by Ben Harper.

Great song off one of my favorite albums ever made. Excellent choice.

FrankY59 · October 2010

Forget the lyrics! Just play Yellow Ledbetter. Thats what I am doing for my wedding song next month. The music is BEAUTIFUL and just like Eddie says when describing the song, "Make of it what you will." So basically a new bond will be formed and just like the song, I will make of it ANYTHING WE WANT.

Plus, noone else at the wedding is a Pearl Jam fan so I dont have to worry about them leaving when the song finishes.

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