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Breathing (acoustic duo)

from Acoustic Mongrel Dogs by DaylightSaving

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This song is about living with my grief for Alex and my love for her little sister Niamh. Niamh was 4 years old and Alex was 13, when Alex died suddenly of an undiagnosed heart condition. Niamh is 12 now, and Alex would be 21, if she were still with us. We miss her every Christmas, every birthday, every first day of the school summer holidays (that was the day she died in 2005), every day.
At least 12 young otherwise fit & healthy young people die each week in the UK, of undiagnosed but treatable heart conditions, and every death is a tragedy. Cardiac Risk in the Young (CRY UK)  are working to raise awareness and funds for screening programmes to help save young lives.

Please consider making a donation. You can text PXNY59 £1 to donate.
Thanks so much. Have a lovely day.

You can read more about CRY UK and about Alex here: www.justgiving.com/Remembering-Alex

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I watched her cry for you, with nothing I could say to ease her mind,
I would have died to be with you, but I could not leave her behind.
Torn between the two, my love for her, my grief for you,
All that I can do is try to go on breathing.

First in my heart, you were the sun, the moon, the stars that filled my skies,
Now torn apart, all but for her, with whom what's left of my heart lies,
Torn between the two, my love for her, my grief for you,
All that I can do is try to go on breathing.

The westering sun falls low and paints the sky your colours, red and gold,
You shine there still, for all I know, and will burn bright, as I grow old,
Torn between the two, my love for her, my grief for you,
All that I can do is try to go on breathing.

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from Acoustic Mongrel Dogs, released July 18, 2012

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DaylightSaving Canterbury, UK

Having been told they weren't 'pure jazz enough' by a UK radio station that shall remain nameless, Richard and Kate delight in describing themselves as 'mongrel dogs of jazz-pop fusion and proud of it'. That half of their songs sound more like contemporary folk than either pop or jazz is neither here nor there.
DaylightSaving's sound combines elements of jazz, pop, folk and Latin.
Formed Nov 2008
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