| Taylor Swift – Breathe Lyrics | 11 years ago |
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This song has a lot of meaning for me. It reminds me of my first real relationship that ended in the worst way and resulted in the worst heartbreak of my life. I feel like every single lyric in this song describes my relationship perfectly. To me, this is what I think the song is about: “I see your face in my mind as I drive away; 'Cause none of us thought it was gonna end that way. People are people, and sometimes we change our minds. But it's killing me to see you go after all this time” It’s about breaking up with someone you love on bad terms when you weren’t ready and didn’t want for it to end, at least not the way that it did. So you go for a drive to clear your head and to think about everything that went wrong. You think to yourself and realize that you really didn’t think you would actually ever break up and neither did anyone else around you. You had a lot of ups and downs, but you still always managed to get back together. Also, you were in a relationship with this person for a very long time so you honestly thought you would always be with that person, forever. But you realize that as time changes, so do people and their feelings. Sometimes it’s possible to fall out of love with someone, especially if that person has done a lot of things throughout the course of your relationship to hurt you or to make you not trust them. So you decide that maybe it’s best to leave that person, no matter how much it kills you to see them go. “Music starts playin' like the end of a sad movie, it’s the kinda ending you don't really wanna see. ‘Cause its tragedy and it'll only bring you down, now I don't know what to be without you around.” As you continue to drive, a sad song comes on the radio that relates a lot to your situation and makes you feel like you’re watching a sad movie that end tragically. So you turn off the music and continue thinking about everything. That’s when you realize that you have no idea what to do with yourself because the person you love isn’t there anymore and you feel like a part of you is missing. You feel like you don’t even know who you are anymore without them. That’s when you start to think about how different your life is going to be because someone who was such an important part of your life is gone now and you’re not sure how to handle it. “And we know it's never simple, never easy. Never a clean break, no one here to save me. You're the only thing I know like the back of my hand.” You come to the realization that no matter how things ended between the two of you, things weren’t going to be simple or easy. Heartbreaks are never simple or easy for anyone to go through. When your heart breaks, it shatters into a million little pieces. You feel so lost and confused about everything in your life. You feel so helpless and the only person who can make you feel better is the one who hurt you. You feel like when they walked away, they took a part of you with them. You’re not a whole person without them. You feel so betrayed because you thought you knew this person better than anyone or anything in the whole world. You start to feel like maybe you didn’t know this person at all and maybe everything you had with them was a lie. “And I can't, breathe, without you, but I have to, breathe, without you, but I have to.” You honestly feel like you’re physically dying without this person. It literally makes you lose your breath and you have to force yourself to calm down and just breathe. You feel like loving this person is like breathing air, you can’t live without it. You start breaking down and feel like your literally going to die without this person. “Never wanted this, never wanna see you hurt. Every little bump in the road I tried to swerve. People are people, and sometimes it doesn't work out. Nothing we say is gonna save us from the fallout” You think about all the things that you wish you could say or would have said to the person about everything that led up to this break up. You think about how much this break up might be hurting them and that makes you hurt for them because even though you’re broken up, you still don’t want to see them hurting. You think about how hard you tried to fix things and make things work out between you two, but it takes two people to make a relationship work. You think about what you might say to each other if you were talking to them right now. You think that you would both come to the conclusion that not every relationship works out or is meant last forever. But then you think that no matter what either of you would say, it would still hurt just as bad as it does now if not worse. “It's two am, feelin' like I just lost a friend. Hope you know it's not easy, easy for me.” You realize that it’s 2AM and that you’ve been alone for hours thinking about everything that’s happened. You feel so lost and alone, like you just lost your best friend. You wonder if they even care that it’s over between you two because you haven’t talked to them since the breakup. You start to think that maybe this isn’t as hard on them as it is on you. You want them to know that this isn’t easy for you at all and that it’s killing you. But you don’t try to talk to them either because you feel pathetic for being so hurt over it and they seem to be doing just fine without you. “I can't, breathe, without you, but I have to, breathe, without you, but I have to. Sorry (oh) sorry, sorry, sorry, sorry, sorry.” You finally realize that things really are over between the two of you. Even though your heart is still broken and it still hard for you to even breathe, you realize you have to accept it and start moving on. You want them to know that this isn’t going to be easy for you at all but it’s something you have to do for yourself. You look back at everything that’s happened and feel very remorseful. You take the blame for a lot of things, even if you shouldn’t. You are sorry for the things you did wrong and that he couldn’t forgive you for them. You also are sorry that you have to let go and walk away. You wish you could tell them how sorry you are but you don’t because you feel like it’s pointless, so you just keep it to yourself. But you’re also saying sorry to yourself. You’re sorry that you allowed yourself to let someone hurt you like this and wish you would have walked away a long time ago. Hope that helps! |
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