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Breathe No More is a B-side from the album Fallen. It appeared on the live album Anywhere But Home, and the Elektra Soundtrack.
Background 
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The song was originally written and recorded during the Fallen sessions, but didn't make the cut on the album. Amy said it didn't fit the album as it was a "rock record", but since she recorded it properly she hoped to include it on Fallen's follow-up.[1] This, however, didn't happen. The song was included on the Elektra soundtrack in 2005.
In late 2012, Amy explained the meaning of the song to a fan during a Meet & Greet:
I wrote the song when I was in quite a dark place. I was in a toxic relationship that was destroying me, the song is really about how sometimes when you're in a toxic relationship you change yourself for the other person, but you start to hate yourself for it. You look in the mirror and hate the person you've become. That self loathing is one of the worst feelings in the world, because you just want the other person in the relationship to be happy but at the same time you don't want to lose yourself, the real you.
LyricsEdit
I've been looking in the mirror for so long
That I've come to believe my soul's on the other side
All the little pieces falling, shatter
Shards of me, too sharp to put back together
Too small to matter
But big enough to cut me into
So many little pieces
If I try to touch her
And I bleed, I bleed
And I breathe, I breathe no more
Take a breath and I try to draw from my spirit's well
Yet again you refuse to drink like a stubborn child
Lie to me, convince me that I've been sick forever
And all of this will make sense when I get better
But I know the difference
Between myself and my reflection
I just can't help but to wonder
Which of us do you love?
So I bleed, I bleed
And I breathe, I breathe no
Bleed, I bleed
And I breathe, I breathe
I breathe, I breathe no more
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