Breathe No More

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General information

Written By: A. Lee

Breathe No More is an outtake from Fallen. It is a piano ballad that was originally meant to be on the album, but was scrapped. It was later released on the Elektra soundtrack on January 11th, 2005 and the b-side album, Lost Whispers, on LP on December 9, 2016, then digitally on February 17, 2017. Amy Lee has sole writing credits to this song.

"Breathe No More" is one that I wrote as we were recording the album and I recorded it and it just didn't make it, it's mellow... It's a rock record, whatever, but I would really like to have it make it on the next record. We have it recorded nicely, it's on Kazaa.com, you can check it out...

Amy, in late 2012, told a fan the inspiration behind the song at a meet and greet:

I wrote the song when I was in quite a dark place. I was in a toxic relationship that was destroying me, the song is really about how sometimes when you're in a toxic relationship you change yourself for the other person, but you start to hate yourself for it. You look in the mirror and hate the person you've become. That self loathing is one of the worst feelings in the world, because you just want the other person in the relationship to be happy but at the same time you don't want to lose yourself, the real you.

On October 1, 2020, Amy Lee shared an Instagram story where she played an old tape from the 2001/2002 sessions that included a demo clip of Breathe No More.

The voice notes included on a cassette tape of Fallen's 20th Anniversary Super Deluxe Edition Box Set contain audio of Amy Lee working on the vocal melody of the song.

Versions

Studio Versions

Breathe No More [Fallen outtake]

• Recording date: August - November 2002
• Status: Released, Available
• Released on:

Elektra - The Album (Track #8)

Lost Whispers (track #5)

Fallen (Deluxe Edition / Remastered) (track #13)

• Length: 3:47

Breathe No More [Demo]

• Recording date: 2001-2002
• Status: Unreleased, Available
• Length: 3:51

Breathe No More [Demo - Clip from Amy Lee's Instagram story]

• Recording date: 2001-2002
• Status: Unreleased, Available

Live Versions

Breathe No More [Piano-vocal]

• Performing period: October 7, 2003
• Performed at: Lisbon, Coliseum

Breathe No More [Piano, acoustic guitar and drums]

• Performing period: October 8, 2003 - August 14, 2004
• Status: Released, Available
• Recording date: May 25, 2004
• Released on: Anywhere but Home (Track #8)
• Length: 3:33

Breathe No More [2016 Piano-vocal]

• Performing period: October - November 2016; April 2016

Download

• Breathe No More (Demo)

Lyrics

I've been looking in the mirror for so long
That I've come to believe my soul's on the other side
All the little pieces falling, shatter
Shards of me too sharp to put back together

Too small to matter
But big enough to cut me into so many little pieces
If I try to touch her

And I bleed
I bleed
And I breathe
I breathe no more

Take a breath and I try to draw from my spirit's well
Yet again you refuse to drink like a stubborn child
Oh! lie to me, convince me that I've been sick forever
And all of this will make sense when I get better

But I know the difference
Between myself and my reflection
I just can't help but to wonder
Which of us do you love?

So I bleed
I bleed
And I breathe
I breathe no-

Bleed
I bleed
And I breathe
I breathe
I breathe
I breathe no more

Guitar tabs & sheet music

• Piano sheet music with guitar tabs - ABH version
• Piano sheet music - Transcribed by Kyle Marcolini
• Piano sheet music - Arranged by MJL
• Piano sheet music - Arranged by Michael McWilliams
• Guitar tabs