Breathe by Matt Scales – song lyrics

Our Team Katie video for 2010 features the song Breathe, from Matt Scales, a CF patient who died from the disease in 2007 at 28 years of age.

Matt’s personal struggle with CF made the song especially poignant, given his intimacy with the disease.

You can view more information about Matt and you can also download an mp3 copy of the song as well as an mp4 video of the song at this URL: http://www.cfvoice.com/info/breathe/index.jsp

Here are the lyrics to the song, Breathe:

Breathe
By Matt Scales
Through my eyes
I see you
Staring at me
All the time.
So I wish
That it would leave
My body.
I wish I could breathe
Like you, oh, breathe
I know the answer’s out there.
So won’t you help me, please?
Chorus:
Then one day I’ll breathe
I’ll breathe, I’ll breathe
I’ll breathe like you.
Then one day I’ll breathe
I’ll breathe, I’ll breathe
I’ll breathe like you.
I see the future.
It seems so clear.
That one day I’ll breathe like you.
Then I think that
I’m all right
But it keeps changin’
Like the weather.
It’s not up to me
How I feel
How I feel
Inside.
I wish I could breathe
Like you, oh, breathe
I know the answer’s out there.
Won’t you help me, please?
Chorus:
Then one day I’ll breathe
I’ll breathe, I’ll breathe
I’ll breathe like you.
Then one day I’ll breathe
I’ll breathe, I’ll breathe
I’ll breathe like you.
I see the future.
It seems so clear.
That one day I’ll breathe like you.
I wish I could breathe
Like you, oh, breathe
I know the answer’s out there.
Won’t you help me…please?
Cause one day I’ll breathe
I’ll breathe, I’ll breathe
I’ll breathe like you.
Then one day I’ll breathe
I’ll breathe, I’ll breathe
I’ll breathe like you.
I see the future.
It seems so clear.
That one day I’ll breathe like you…like you.

Original “Breathe” Composition © 2001 Matt Scales and Barnaby Pinny.