Released: October 29, 2002
Songwriter: Matt Slocum
Producer: Matt Slocum Paul Fox
I look out to the fields
Where blood is shed upon the ground
I breathe in, breathe out
Change the channel, mute the sound
I take a match, a cigarette
And a walk to clear my head
My stomach's reeling at the thought
Of all those human beings dead
I breathe in, breathe out
And go to do an interview
About a song, three minutes long
I just need something to do
Especially when my dearest friend
Was sent to cover Kosovo
His last assignment brought a bullet
And now he's gone, he's gone
Feels like I'm fiddling while Rome is burning down
Should I lay my fiddle down, take a rifle from the ground
I need the ghost to breathe a northern gale tonight
Cause I'm paralyzed, I'm paralyzed
I packed his books up, left the office
Went to tell the wife the news
She fell in shock, the baby kicked
And shed a tear inside the womb
I breathed in, I breathed out
Soak the ground up with my eyes
It's hard to say a healing word
When your tongue is paralyzed
Feels like I'm fiddling while Rome is burning down
Should I lay my fiddle down, take a rifle from the ground
I need the ghost to breathe a northern gale tonight
Cause I'm paralyzed, I'm paralyzed
I breathe in, I breathe out
I breathe in, I breathe out
I breathe in, I breathe out
Where blood is shed upon the ground
I breathe in, breathe out
Change the channel, mute the sound
I take a match, a cigarette
And a walk to clear my head
My stomach's reeling at the thought
Of all those human beings dead
I breathe in, breathe out
And go to do an interview
About a song, three minutes long
I just need something to do
Especially when my dearest friend
Was sent to cover Kosovo
His last assignment brought a bullet
And now he's gone, he's gone
Feels like I'm fiddling while Rome is burning down
Should I lay my fiddle down, take a rifle from the ground
I need the ghost to breathe a northern gale tonight
Cause I'm paralyzed, I'm paralyzed
I packed his books up, left the office
Went to tell the wife the news
She fell in shock, the baby kicked
And shed a tear inside the womb
I breathed in, I breathed out
Soak the ground up with my eyes
It's hard to say a healing word
When your tongue is paralyzed
Feels like I'm fiddling while Rome is burning down
Should I lay my fiddle down, take a rifle from the ground
I need the ghost to breathe a northern gale tonight
Cause I'm paralyzed, I'm paralyzed
I breathe in, I breathe out
I breathe in, I breathe out
I breathe in, I breathe out
more tracks from the album
From the album
- Divine Discontent (2002)
Sixpence None the Richer popular songs
- Kiss Me
- There She Goes
- Breathe Your Name
- Don’t Dream It’s Over
- Christmas for Two
- Kiss Me (Live In Hollywood)
- Love Salvation The Fear Of Death
- Falling Leaves
- Deeper
- Carol of the Bells
- Should Not Be This Hard
- I’ve Been Waiting
- Angels We Have Heard on High
- Radio
- I Just Wasn’t Made for These Times
- Go Your Way
- Brighten My Heart
- Around
- Down and Out of Time
- Too Far Gone
- We Have Forgotten
- Don’t Dream It’s Over (radio edit)
- Circle of Error
- The Garden