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Breathe

by Hugh Davison

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Musically, I obliquely channeled my inner David Byrne and the Talking Heads, but it’s also somewhat of an homage to Ali Farke Tourè and West African guitar music, which I’m a huge fan of. Thematically, Breathe is a song about combustion - how as the moment burns towards the future, the past becomes ash. It references holy moments in lost places and disjointed realities, but also hope and redemption. It is about the opposing yet balancing forces that keep the world alive - the air in the lungs, the inward grasp and gasp for life and the exhale, the outward, inevitable capitulation to death.

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Breathe
Stumbling
Through the early morn
We’ll show our teeth
These Days are old
These killing bones
I fall upon my sticks and stones

Breathe
You’re my mystery
My creeping death
My skeleton key
Now see
What it all means to me
My parasite touch
On a shipwrecked beach

From
The sudden sky
We fall upon
The countryside
Those gleaming trees
Those shaking hands
Well we shiver on down
To the promised land

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released December 11, 2020

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Hugh Davison Johannesburg, South Africa

I have been writing this music questioning the nature of reality, as well as taking an active interest in the ideas of Magic, Spirituality, politics, purpose, morality and Chaos.

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