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Mitski, Xiu Xiu - Between the Breaths (From "How To Talk To Girls At Parties" Soundtrack)
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Credits

PERFORMING ARTISTS
Mitski
Mitski
Performer
Xiu Xiu
Xiu Xiu
Performer
COMPOSITION & LYRICS
John Cameron Mitchell
John Cameron Mitchell
Composer
Jamie Stewart
Jamie Stewart
Composer
PRODUCTION & ENGINEERING
John Cameron Mitchell
John Cameron Mitchell
Producer
Jamie Stewart
Jamie Stewart
Producer
Patrick Derivaz
Patrick Derivaz
Recording Engineer
Patrick Hyland
Patrick Hyland
Mixing Engineer

Lyrics

[Verse 1]
Have you looked to the stars so you could find
Illuminated in scars, a face of mind?
I am saving a space between the breaths
I am making your place between the breaths
As the flame is to snow, first love to last
I will laugh in your face, like shattered glass
I am saving a space between the breaths
Ooh, you're saving a place between the breaths
[Verse 2]
Between the breaths
Between the breaths
Between the breaths
Between the breaths
[Verse 3]
I've seen it
Ooh, and I'm between it
I've seen it
Oh, and I'm between breaths
[Verse 4]
I never said where I came from
You never asked what I was made of
You didn't need to know, you already know
I said it, even so, you didn't need to know
You never said you couldn't see me
Never a hint, you couldn't be me
I could never say, I didn't need to say
Now I'm final though, it was touch and go
[Verse 5]
Counting the breaths until you
[Verse 6]
Oh, my love, oh, my love
Oh, my love, oh, my love
[Verse 7]
The distance between us solved by a shrug
Just a shrug of dark matter
Just a shrug of dark matter
[Verse 8]
You thought you saw the star you couldn't find
You think, you wish you may, you wish you might
Be sent into space between the breaths
Are you saving a place between the breaths?
[Verse 9]
I've seen it
Oh, and I'll breathe it
I've seen it
Oh, and I'll breathe it
[Verse 10]
Between the breaths
Between the breaths
Between the breaths
[Verse 11]
You never said you couldn't see me
Never a hint, you couldn't be me
I could never say, I didn't need to say
I said it even though you didn't need to know
[Verse 12]
A sky full of messages sealed up in bottles
Smashed omens, our days are now numbered
Scream in my mouth, I'll barely hear you
[Verse 13]
Flame into snow
First love to last
Grand on grow
First love to now
[Verse 14]
Questions posed
Wouldn't cut the throat
You don't have to ask
First love to last
[Verse 15]
Let's meet at the same time every night
Starlight on skin, it's a million years old
You never asked my age
You never questioned my rage
Let's meet at the same time every morning
The blood in my gut is a thousand years old
I could write a sweetest infection
You write the sweetest confection
[Verse 16]
Well, come on now
I don't need to know
Who said leave me there?
You could never know
[Verse 17]
All I know
All I know
All I know
Written by: James Cyrus Stewart, John Cameron Mitchell

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