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"Breathe Again" - Toni Braxton

There's this episode in Sex and the City that talks about things you do that you never want people to see you do. They refer to it as their "SSB," their Secret Single Behavior. It's the stuff that maybe you're embarrassed about or you never really thought to share with another person. Maybe you simply just prefer to do it in privacy for the sheer purpose of doing it alone. Maybe if you were in the presence of company, you'd mess it up entirely. Maybe having an audience makes you feel like it's just you acting stupid than the you that you feel when no one's looking. Whatever the reason, most if not all, people have at least one thing (plenty if you're interesting) that would fall into this category.

Me? Oh, I have quite a bit, but here's one for now. I like to lip-synch in front of a full length mirror while sitting on a computer chair and blogging about some of these songs. This is one of the songs. I guess it explains why I chose to write about it, but for the first time ever I'm not going to go into further detail. I mentioned it once and will leave it at that so shhh... Please don't tell anyone that I told you.

Lyrics:

If I never feel you in my arms again
If I never feel your tender kiss again
If I never hear I love you now and then
Will I never make love to you once again
Please understand if love ends
Then I promise you, I promise you
That, that I shall never breathe again
Breathe again
Breathe again
That I shall never breathe again
Breathe again

And I can't stop thinkin' about
About the way things used to be
And I can't stop thinkin' about
About the love that you make to me
And I can't get you outta my head
How in the world will I begin

To let you walk right out my life
And blow my heart away

And I can't stop carin' about
About the apple of my eye
And I can't stop doin' without
Without the center of my life
And I can't get you outta my head
And I know I can't pretend
That I won't die if you decide
You won't see me again

If I never feel you in my arms again
If I never feel your tender kiss again
If I never hear I love you now and then
Will I never make love to you once again
Please understand if love ends
Then I promise you, I promise you
That, that I shall never breathe again
Breathe again
Breathe again
That I shall never breathe again
Breathe again

And I can't stop thinkin' about
About the way my life would be
No I can't stop thinkin' about
How could your love be leavin' me
And I can't get you outta my mind
God knows how hard I tried
And if you walk right out my life
God knows I'd surely die
And I can't stop doin' without
Without the rhythm of my heart
No I can't stop doin' without
For I would surely fall apart
And I can't get you outta my mind
Cause I know I can't deny it
And I would die if you decide
You won't see me again

If I never feel you in my arms again
If I never feel your tender kiss again
If I never hear I love you now and then
Will I never make love to you once again
Please understand if love ends
Then I promise you, I promise you
That, that I shall never breathe again
Breathe again
Breathe again
That I shall never breathe again
Breathe again

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