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Placebo – Breathe Underwater Lyrics 15 years ago
I feel as though this song is about the how the realization that one is in too deep in alcohol abuse.

Possibly drinking to forget someone and how badly they were hurt by the relationship.

("Here comes another fall from grace
I'm always falling on my face
This attitude that I embrace
For the love I'm trying to replace

I try to kill the song
'Cause the melody's all wrong
And there's a fever coming on")

Then noticing that their life has passed them by, they don't really know who they are anymore, all of their friends have given up, and that the reasons for drinking do not retain.


("Take my ego for a ride
'Cause there's nobody by my side
It's getting hard to justify
And it won't be long 'til I collide

My weaknesses laid bare
As people stop and stare
But it's the last time I swear

It's hard to reconcile
What I've become
With the wounded child
Hiding deep inside")

Breathe underwater- reference to being drunk
Coming up for air- sobriety


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