‘Cause you can’t jump the track, we’re like cars on a cable/ One-hit wonders get a bad name but think of all the bands that never even have one hit. We haven’t heard much from Anna Nalick since “Breathe (2am)”, but what a breath-taking release this first single of hers was. The song sounds like it could belong in both the rock world or the country world. That is extremely rare. Nalick tells the story of a woman who is struggling to cope with the alcoholism of her man. She feels embarrassment as she has to help him home, stumbling out of the bar late at night, but she rejects the pious pity from the onlookers who are simply in a lesser state of drunkenness. The best part of “Breathe” is her comments about fatalism. She knows that her and her man are on a path that does not lead to anything good; rarely to people turn around once they fall into the pit of alcoholism. They simply fall deeper and deeper; like an hourglass glued to a table. Her only respite is to tell herself (and her man) to just breathe and try to get through today. This is of a bleak existence, but one that many that struggle with substance can relate to. And she can’t give up. Because her lover IS so beautiful when he smiles. And he is hers. Breath 2am LyricsTwo AM and she calls me ’cause I’m still awake, ‘Cause you can’t jump the track, we’re like cars on a cable, May he turn twenty one on the base at Fort Bliss, ‘Cause you can’t jump the track, we’re like cars on a cable, “There’s a light at each end of this tunnel”, you shout. Two AM and I’m still awake, writing a song, ‘Cause you can’t jump the track, we’re like cars on a cable, written by Anna Nalick "Two AM and she calls me 'cause I'm still awake, "I don't love him, winter just wasn't my season" - "Him" referring to alcohol "Yeah we walk through the doors, so accusing their eyes "Life's like an hourglass, glued to the table" - one day at a time, 24 hours in a day. "No one can find the rewind button girl, "Cause you can't jump the track, we're like cars on a cable" - I immediately thought of the Big Book where they use the jay walker as an example of "insanity"(Doing the same thing over and over, expecting different results). "May he turn twenty one on the base at Fort Bliss "There's a light at each end of this tunnel, you
shout "Two AM and I'm still awake, writing a song "And I feel like I'm
naked in front of the crowd |