A friend I had once told me,

such an unusual story,

of a man who did breathe in but never did breathe out,

this tale reminds me of you,

though a different shade of blue,

you cannot always take and never give this is not how to live



(chorus)

You gotta breathe in and out,

you gotta spread a little love all around



Though I don't know this for sure,

just another knock at my door,

a sprinkling of an inkling underneath an apple tree,

i'll tell you when i find out,

and show you what it is to breathe out,

a natural progression lesson messin' up your mind



(chorus x2)



I feel in you another way to be,

I watch as you breathe over me,

I'm breathing



Like a tale on jackanory,

the end to this unusual story is,

a breath upon a window payne so com'on step out of the rain,

though i'd like to think this were true,

you've become a deeper shade of blue,

in my eyes this comes as no surprise you've nothing left to give no



(chorus x2