| Katy Perry – I'm Still Breathing Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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I don't think that looking for deeper meanings and messages behind makes sense. These lyrics are more about emotions than facts and I think that's the only message. I mostly agree with shaunah, but my interpretation of chorus is quite different. "Cause I'm still breathing And we've been dead for a while" First, IMO there should be "though/but we've been dead". For me the girl is quite surprised with the fact that she's still breathing, because their relationship has died, and she didn't expect she could survive this. It seems that she have never thought about it this way: for her this love was all her world and it was normal that when it ends, her life will end too. "This sickness has no cure we're going down for sure already lost a grip best abandoned ship" First, IMO there should be "best abandon ship". She is realizing that there is no hope for this love, that she cannot save it, there isn't anything between them anymore. Their ship is going down, so they have to abandon it. I guess the whole song was written after breaking up and it's trying to show how the girl cannot live with it normally. It's not TRULY about commiting suicide, more about the way she doesn't care about her life anymore, like it has lost all meaning. She is talking about that in the first verse - she isn't going to kill herself with premeditation, but just die. If she will keep on doing all the things she is talking about, it's for sure gonna happen. And above all of this, she is still trying to get his attention, because he doesn't care anymore, and she still loves him. She knows it's not gonna work, she realizes he won't come back, there is no help, but without him life makes no sense. The whole song is just one big WARNING sign. And, one more thing: "say something funny, say something sweet but don't say that you loved me" "lets close this chapter, say one last prayer but don't say that you loved me" shaunah says that the girl is afraid of these words, because they would make her death stupid and meaningless. For me she doesn't want her ex-boyfriend to say it, because she knows it's not true. Like she's trying to say: I don't believe you anymore, you never loved me, so stop lying and don't pretend now. That's what I think about this song, very beautiful song. I'd never thought that Katy can write thing like this. Love, aitch PS. I'm very sorry for my English, but I'm still learning ;) |
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