What does Breathe (2 AM) mean?

Anna Nalick: Breathe (2 AM) Meaning

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Breathe (2 AM) Lyrics

2 AM and she calls me 'cause I'm still awake,
"Can you help me unravel my latest mistake?,
I don't love him. Winter just wasn't my season"
Yeah we walk through the doors, so accusing their eyes
Like they have any right at all to...

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  1. anonymous
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     Jul 16th 2010 !⃝

    This is the way I see it.

    Has anyone ever heard of something called Seasonal affective disorder? It's very common. Basically, certain people will become depressed during the winter months due to lack of sunlight, etc.....

    Well maybe that is what the beginning of this song is talking about. Maybe the friend calls at 2am, because she's having a melt down. She's depressed, it's winter, and she's realized that she doesn't love the man in her life. Maybe because she's depressed, it leads to a drug or alcohol problem.

    Then when it talks about ".....So accusing there eyes, like they have any right at all to critisize, hipocrits your all here for the very same reason" I think here she is taking her friend to a support group, ie.) AA.

    This is just the way I've always viewed the song...

  2. anonymous
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     May 28th 2010 !⃝

    the song has to do with life mostly and how stupid mistakes can have a big inpack (srry my spelling is bad):
    the being saying "2 AM and she calls me 'cause I'm still awake,"Can you help me unravel my latest mistake?,
    I don't love him. Winter just wasn't my season"
    Yeah we walk through the doors, so accusing their eyes
    Like they have any right at all to criticize,
    Hypocrites. You're all here for the very same reason"
    which is basically saying that a friend went out made a mistake maybe by marrying a guy and then relizing that this isnt what she wanted. maybe she was drunk whn she married him because it saying as we walk through the doors ... were all here for the very same reason- they r probably in court for divorce

  3. maddie2497
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     May 14th 2010 !⃝

    I think this is about a girl who's boyfriend is in the war, and before he left he got his girlfriend got pregnant. She doesn't love him anymore so she called up her friend to get an abortion. They walk to the place, and everyone looks at them, but they are there for the same reason. It then goes to talk about the boyfriend, and then anna, her friend, and her friends boyfriend. It talks about how you can't turn back, you have to live with your mistakes. Beautiful song.

  4. anonymous
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     Nov 17th 2009 !⃝

    "life's like an hourglass glued to the table"
    i think this means that you have one life, so spend it wisely before time runs out. i also think that this is your only life and you cant have a second chance to it (turning hourglass over but its glued), so let things happen and breathe

  5. anonymous
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     Nov 11th 2009 !⃝

    This song means that you have to take life as it comes to you. "Life's like an hourglass glued to the table" - you can't "turn the hourglass over" and reverse time so to speak. This means you can't live in the past, you need to move on. "You can't jump the track, we're like cars on a cable" - you can just avoid all your obstacles in life, you need to deal with them as they come. "Breathe" - just sit down, take a deep breath, and take it all in. Calm yourself; accept your mistakes; learn from them.

    "There's a light at each end of this tunnel,
    You shout 'cause you're just as far in as you'll ever be out
    And these mistakes you've made, you'll just make them again
    If you only try turning around."

    You can't find an easy way out. Since you're as far in as you are out, just move forward, because going back will only cause you to make the mistakes you did before. Again, move on and learn from your mistakes.

  6. anonymous
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     Nov 3rd 2009 !⃝

    My interpretation for the first part(You guys already covered my views on the other parts):
    "2 AM and she calls me 'cause I'm still awake, can you help me unravel my latest mistake? I don't love him... winter just wasn't my season..." I was thinking about everyone else's theorys... most saying abortion, but I thought about another theory. It could mean the girl got a call from her friend at 2 AM because the friend got arrested and is at the county jail. Maybe she was helping her boyfriend do something illegal and realised she wasn't in love with him.
    "Yeah we walk through the doors, so accusing their eyes, Like they have any right at all to criticize, Hypocrites. You're all here for the very same reason" Maybe the girl and her mom/other friend/ect. go to bail the girl out and those people there are in captivity or are bailing out someone else.

  7. anonymous
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     Oct 10th 2009 !⃝

    I agree it could be about a soldier returning from Iraq or Afghanistan and what the wife and family has to go through. May he turn 21 at Fort Bliss vs turning 21 in Iraq/Afghanistan... So beautiful when he smiles I just want to hold him... because of his pain....

  8. anonymous
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     Oct 10th 2009 !⃝

    I think she is singing about a wife and the wife's soldier husband who is stationed at Fort Bliss, TX. He has PTSD from Iraq or Afgan. which is why he hasn't been sober since last year and has been down. The breathe lyric also refers to PTSD as it is used to calm one down and to stop someone from hyperventilation.

  9. anonymous
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     Aug 12th 2009 !⃝

    I think one point of the song is about not being able to turn back time
    but what about the beginning?
    it doesnt make sense to me...

  10. anonymous
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     Jul 22nd 2009 !⃝

    I think it is definatly about abbortion. I believe the mother didn't get the abbortion and that the man at Fort Blizz is actually the father. He hasn't been sober because of all the changes and mistakes in his life. I also think that when it says "it's so beautiful when the boy smiles,
    Wanna hold him," it's from the father's point of view. He dosen't want a child, but when the child smiles it makes the world seem a little better.

  11. anonymous
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     Jun 4th 2009 !⃝

    It sounds like the song might be about alcholholics because of the "we walk throught the doors so accusing their eyes like the have any right at all to criticize they're all here for the very same reason" and the second verse and because of the bridge.

  12. anonymous
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     Apr 6th 2009 !⃝

    I think this song is about anyone who made a mistake- be it a pregnancy, drug addiction, etc... It's about how once you make a mistake,you can't turn back. You have to face it and move on, life goes on.

    Specifically:
    "2AM and she calls me cause I'm still awake
    Can you help me unravel my latest mistake
    I don't love him, winter just wasn't my season"
    I think that most people who have made a *mistake* with someone (and suffer the consequences) could relate to this first verse.

    "Well you can't jump the tracks
    we're like cars on a cable
    and life's like an hourglass glued to the table.
    No one can find the rewind button, girl.
    So cradle your head in your hands
    and breath... just breath... (and so on)"
    The chorus is about moving on from our mistakes, and there isn't a way to change what we've already done. You have to just go with it.

    "May he turned 21 on the base of Fort Bliss
    just today he sat down to the flask in his fist
    ain't been sober since maybe October of last year."
    This is about someone with a drug addiction, who just realized they did and finally decided to give it up and start over.

    I think the rest of the song is pretty self-explanatory, I really love this song (I make mistakes A LOT)

  13. anonymous
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     Mar 21st 2009 !⃝

    I think this song is saying that it wouldn't do you any good to go backwards in time, hence "these mistakes you've made you'll just make them again if you only try turning around." It is also saying you should just accept the facts and move on with your life.

  14. Quiranna1986
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     Aug 28th 2008 !⃝

    This is a song that has always touched me, because I can understand Anna Nalik's point of view. I could picture my now ex best friend calling me, asking for my help and support....My other best guy friend is who I think of with the second verse...It's just a song to tell you that the choices you make can't be undone....you can't backtrack and you have to see them through....As if you were talking your friend through her problems, or watching your guy friend drink himself to oblivion...And to try and undo them, would only make something happen even worse to teach you the very same lesson.

  15. anonymous
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     Aug 1st 2008 !⃝

    Everyone has their own interpretation of this song. To me this song means one thing "move on." This song is about a mistake that was made and she sees it now. The part in the song where she talks about a "tunnel with two lights one on each end", it means that if she goes back to him it justs drags her back further into the tunnel. All she can do is move forward there is no "rewind button" in life.

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