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Breathing In​/​Out

from Long Winter by Jesse LeBourdais

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"This song is about overcoming adversity and dealing with loss. Everyone has to go through it at some point, and it's the people who are there for you when you need them (or when you didn't know that you did) that make getting back up after a fall all the easier. I live with regret, and embrace it, as I believe it makes you stronger once you accept your decisions and move on. That way at the point of death, instead of saying "I have no regrets," I hope to say "I made a ton of mistakes and rose stronger and lived longer because of them."
-JL

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Breathing out is easy, and it means that you are done. It's taking in the air that demands a little more; you have to want to live to see your next breath finish what it starts. If the best of your intentions burn and crumble to the ground, you can wallow in the dust, wherever you are found or you can start to rebuild from what is left under your feet. But you have to climb.

As for the best times of my life, I hope I have not seen the day. I never want to say for sure until I'm moments from the grave when I can stand up tall and scream my name into the dark. If I hear an echo, I'll know I lived loud enough to be heard after I'm gone.

Every time I hear your name, I swear I won't forget. However many years it's been, it hasn't happened yet and I don't care about the pain. I only want to remember the way your voice carried on the wind. You can find yourself inside my mind, at least once a day and for every word I sing, I hope you wanted it that way. It doesn't matter where you are. It's who you help along the way, for which you will be remembered.

As for the best times of my life, I hope I have not seen the day. I never want to say for sure until I'm moments from the grave when I can stand up tall and scream my name into the dark. If I hear an echo, I'll know I lived loud enough to be heard after I'm gone.

As for the best times of my life, I hope I have not seen the day. I never want to say for sure until I'm moments from the grave when I can stand up tall and scream my name into the dark. If I hear an echo, I'll know I lived loud enough to be heard after I'm gone.

credits

from Long Winter, released March 1, 2015
Jesse LeBourdais - Guitar, Vocals
Elliot Langford - Bass
Dave Leslie - Drums, Mandolin

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Jesse LeBourdais Vancouver, British Columbia

Punk rocker/folk singer, now an author, apparently.

Breaking strings and writing words since 1998.

New Single "We Howl" out March 1st, 2024

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