Breathe! - Fanny Alexandra: Song Lyrics, Music Videos & Concerts

Fanny Alexandra

Breathe!

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Breathe! was released on July 17, 2026 by Independent as a part of the album Breathe! - Single

Song Details

AlbumBreathe! - Single

Release DateJuly 17, 2026

LabelIndependent

LanguageEnglish

Melodicness

Acousticness

Valence

Danceability

Energy

BPM

OVERVIEW

LYRICS

Music Video

Music Video

Credits

COMPOSITION & LYRICS

Fanny Alexandra

Fanny Alexandra

Songwriter

PRODUCTION & ENGINEERING

Fanny Alexandra

Fanny Alexandra

Executive Producer

Lyrics

Breathe

Hmm

Breathe

The nurses wore exhaustion

Like halos burnt in smoke

White shoes sliding down linoleum

While the morphine made me float

Blood beneath my fingernails

From clawing at my chest

Trying to find a little girl

Who still believed God knew best

But faith started tasting chemical

Crushed crystal on a spoon

Prayers falling from my mouth

Like broken teeth in motel rooms

CNN glowed blue in silence

Another war on screen

Funny how the whole world burns

While you're learning how to breathe

You swore the smoke would clear

I swore I'd be alright

But every angel I ever admired

Had bruises under white light

You said, "Baby, breathe"

While the monitors screamed

While the hospital lights

Turned saints into machines

I was seventeen

Trying to outrun me

Now every prayer tastes

Like blood in my teeth

Tell me what kind of God

Puts a battlefield in my veins

And calls it growing up

When it leaves us changed

You held me like mercy

Soft hands on my grief

And for one holy second

I almost learned to breathe

There's a ghost inside my girlhood

Still dancing barefoot drunk

Before the scans and said it is

Before survival became luck

Now my mother folds my laundry

Like evidence in court

My father speaks in careful tones

Like grief is something caught

Every lover after you

Felt temporary, thin

Like kissing through an oxygen mask

Trying to let somebody in

I watched pretty girls go hollow

Mascara crack in its sinks

Lip gloss pills and ambulance sirens

Teaching us how not to think

We called it getting better

Because I stayed alive

But the war kept taking pieces

Even after I survived

You said, "Baby, breathe"

While the monitors screamed

While the hospital lights

Turned saints into machines

I was seventeen

Trying to outrun me

Now every prayer tastes

Like blood in my teeth

Tell me what kind of God

Puts a battlefield in my veins

And calls it growing up

When it leaves us changed

You held me like mercy

Soft hands on my grief

And for one holy second

I almost learned to breathe

Maybe heaven's just a waiting room

Plastic chairs, TV static

Where all the girls who survived themselves

Learn healing isn't magic

Maybe love's another substance

We romanticize to death

Another beautiful hallucination

Keeping ghosts inside our chest

But you

You looked at me like I wasn't ruined

Like I wasn't smoke and skin

And God, that almost killed me more

Than everything that did

You said, "Baby, breathe"

While the monitors screamed

While the hospital lights

Turned angels into machines

I was seventeen

Trying to outrun me

Now every prayer tastes

Like blood in my teeth

Tell me what kind of God

Puts a battlefield in my veins

And calls it growing up

When it leaves us changed

You held me like mercy

Like I was worth keeping

And for one holy second

I almost believed it

The nurses changed the IV bags

Morning bled through the blinds

Somewhere a machine kept singing

Keeping time beside my life

And you still whispering, "Baby, breathe"

Written by: Fanny Alexandra

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