Shelter by Birdy
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Please teach me gently how to breathe…
I wanted to share her version of "Fire and Rain" - a familiar song to showcase a new (to me) voice, but the misers at Warners have blocked it. So here's an original song, and an original haunting voice. This birdy can sing - but I guess that line has already been used 100 times!
Sticking with the soundtrack theme, this one I first heard on Vampire Diaries. It's beautiful in it's sadness.
I think the song may gently demonstrate a depressed person desperately wanting to feel connected to herself after loss in a relationship, and not only does she apologize for the loss, but she projects images of herself to reflect the possibility of recovery. Essentially she's asking herself, "Can I turn the lights on? Can i recover/reveal myself? Can he/she see me? Can i see myself" in the hopes of making it all better/finding love again, digging it up, purifying it, finding a center. One could even see it as the ghost of a broken-hearted lover who committed suicide, the shelter being a coffin, or a lover contemplating to herself the thought of a suicide, that she feels dead and fancies herself finding sanctuary in death. Could I be, was I there? It felt so crystal in the air I still want to drown, whenever you leave Please teach me gently, how to breathe (She's asking herself, "did i ever exist? i thought i knew myself so well, i felt alive before, i was so sure, of my love/myself
Birdy, be my friend.
