Just Breath                                                                           ©2009 C. A. Boggess All Rights Reserved 

Another breath, another minute

Won't you please tell me if I did it

Are my guts still on the outside looking in

Is it really time to have to breathe again

Body becomes a mind of its own

Paralleled only to a waning soul

Existence not optional, so it's been said

So great an effort just to breath air in

Please do not implore the art to fly alone

A regard indecorous for the severely torn

Subjected by choices, imposed upon me                                             

Will this soul recover, there is no guarantee                                       

Another breath, another minute

Won't you please tell me if I did it

Are my guts still on the outside looking in

Is it really time to have to breathe again

The torrent of pain, too much to endure

The burning within, draws me to the floor

Physic and spirit are carelessly maimed

Abdomic acid encroaches upon this aching brain     

Resisting a course that does not need to be

Nothing I do now can stop the suffering

Incessant and persistent, darkness covers me

I pray the veil of night will bring eternal sleep

Another breath, another minute

Won't you please tell me if I did it

Are my guts still on the outside looking in

Is it really time to have to breathe again                        (Will I remember to breathe again)

This is Crystal's debut on 12-String guitar...A borrowed Martin J12-15. The recording itself is not complete, as the vocals are a rough draft, and the bass-line has not been laid down, as of yet. But... a representation, none-the-less. 

The lyric speaks for itself in this haunting presentation... One in such dire anguish, that even the thought of breathing is too treacherous to endure. The subject finds themself, not actively seaking suicide, but would rather not awaken in the morning to face what has been imposed upon him/her.

Dark... perhaps. Honest... Yes! But a song borne of emotion from depths never before reached...