A friend I had once told me, such an unusual story, of a man who did breathe in but never did breathe out, this tale reminds me of you, though a different shade of blue, you cannot always take and never give this is not how to live (chorus) You gotta breathe in and out, you gotta spread a little love all around Though I don't know this for sure, just another knock at my door, a sprinkling of an inkling underneath an apple tree, i'll tell you when i find out, and show you what it is to breathe out, a natural progression lesson messin' up your mind (chorus x2) I feel in you another way to be, I watch as you breathe over me, I'm breathing Like a tale on jackanory, the end to this unusual story is, a breath upon a window payne so com'on step out of the rain, though i'd like to think this were true, you've become a deeper shade of blue, in my eyes this comes as no surprise you've nothing left to give no (chorus x2)