Name: Sometimes Life Is So Sad I Can't Breathe
Duration: P00H02M49S
Description: My friend and fellow clubber, Stephanie, posted on Facebook "Sometimes life is so sad I can't breathe." I saw that and a few minutes later I had the lyrics, a few hours later I realized I also had the music.

Sometimes Life Is So Sad I Can't Breathe

from Sometimes Life Is So Sad I Can't Breathe by Lach

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My friend and fellow clubber, Stephanie, posted on Facebook "Sometimes life is so sad I can't breathe." I saw that and a few minutes later I had the lyrics, a few hours later I realized I also had the music.

lyrics

Sometimes Life Is So Sad I Can't Breathe

and yet water still flows over myriad jewelled rocks
and the fishermen sing while hauling fish from the docks
and that tree you pass by everyday
is a universe awakening in its own special way

and that breath you can't breathe is a knock on the door
and being weak at the knees is the tide on the shore
and the crone walking by with the shopping cart
is a second away from refilling your heart

all life's miseries are the bed that we've made
when we deny that light is what makes shade
and it may sound trite, it may seem played
but it rains on flowers when it rains on parades

and the pain of loss can make it so easy to give
and anger at injustice can move us to live
and the pain of death is the pain of birth
connecting everything and everybody on earth

Sometimes life is so sad
I breathe

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from Sometimes Life Is So Sad I Can't Breathe, released February 17, 2020
Lach - Guitar, Vocals, Bass, Drums, Tuba, Horn, Strings, Piano
Produced and Engineered by Lach at EdenB Studios, Edinburgh
Artwork by Lach

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