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Your Last Breath

by Overhead, The Albatross

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'Your Last Breath is a song that both mourns death, loss, and grief, and celebrates the awe and beauty of this life we all share with one another.'

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The corridor felt empty that day like we were alone.
As our eyes met while you were pushed I knew that was it, our last look.
I called out just as you were wheeled past and the words I
love you descended and echoed against the rubber floor.
The last time our eyes locked was
a fleeting glance of pain tinged with love.

A sobering reality of our mortality.
I want to be better.
I want to succeed in your eyes and mine.
I want to deliver and descend into an overwhelming feeling of accomplishment.
I don' twant that to be the last look I don't want that to be the last look

Your heart, your eyes your teeth my soul Is stretched,
I'll never again be that person.
I’ll never again know that person.
I hope one day I'm not playing pretend .
I hope one day our eyes will meet in the sand, the clouds or the stars.
I hope one day I can look at death as nothing but a step.
I hope one day I can inhale your last breath and feel it in my chest

For although you're gone, and I'm left in loss, billions of molecules combusted in your lungs, and with your last act exploded into being, escaped your lips, circled the room, rattled the walls and smashed one another, and as your heart ceased, the nurse burst in, those
particles of breath were sucked into the ward, through the double doors running for their freedom.

departing the building and scattering through the streets where they raced through traffic, danced through fields, soared over trees, landing on shores, surfing on waves, streaming through mountains, fighting through deserts, tornadoes and typhoons.


One day you’ll circle round the world and end up on my lips,
a journey of survival where we can finally fit.

cause we inhale one another every single time we breath.
We have inhaled the very first of us and the last will inhale me.
I feel every bit of pain, and love and nothing in between.
We’ve made everything impossible and I know we want to scream.
But there's beauty in the knowledge we’re together in this mess,
in birth our life,
to our death,
and our last breath

credits

released March 7, 2024
Music by Overhead, The Albatross
Produced by David Prendergast & Luke Daly
Mixed by Jason Boland

Directed by Jason Boland & Luke Daly
DOP Jason Boland
Editor Luke Daly
Colourist Patrick Corr
Words by Luke Daly

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