Breathe (reprise) ?

Powderfinger · Post by **Powderfinger** » Thu May 29, 2003 10:23 am

On the cd Dark Side of the Moon after Time, in the same track is another song: Breathe reprise. The last lines of Time are:

Every year is getting shorter never seem to find the time
Plans that either come to naught or half a page of scribbled lines
Hanging on in quiet desperation is the English way
The time is gone, the song is over,
Thought I'd something more to say

Then the music doesn't stop but continues in the numder: Breathe(reprise):

Home, home again
I like to be here when I can
When I come home cold and tired
It's good to warm my bones beside the fire
Far away across the field
The tolling of the iron bell
Calls the faithful to their knees
To hear the softly spoken magic spells

The tune is exactly like Breathe. But why is it in the same track? Anyone knows?

JML · Post by **JML** » Thu May 29, 2003 11:21 am

I don't know this. I think it's there because it's there, like the final for Breathe, On The Run and Time... he's home again and he hear the church bells ringing ang then there's one gig in the sky.

Beatles has on Sgt. Pepper "Sgt. Peppers Lonely Heart Club Band reprise" too.

Post by **Keith Jordan** » Thu May 29, 2003 11:41 am

Seems to signify circularity. The life cycle. Born, grow a little, work, rest a little, die. New life. Perhaps breathe reprise is showing that pattern??!?!

Big Kelv · Post by **Big Kelv** » Thu May 29, 2003 4:01 pm

My original pressing of ye olde vinyl, Breath (reprise) is listed as a seperate track - and I have always treated it as such. In modern days (films are in colour now) a CD player displays the track number - giving the impression that the reprise is the same track.

My first editon pressing of DSOTM displayed them as one track (I put it down to sloppy mastering). Each subsequent CD edition doesn't seem to have corrected this mistake.

I believe that Time and Breathe(reprise) are two different tracks entirely.

Previous posts just indicate Breath(reprise) position in the album's concept.

In the olden days, we had to lift the stylus to the correct position (visually by looking for wide shiny bands on the record) - hard to do with one with no real visible gaps

Sorry for being old(ish) - I can't help being a vinyl junkie/audiophile.

David Smith · Post by **David Smith** » Thu May 29, 2003 7:26 pm

Sorry to spoil this conversation but it's cause they wanted to use 6 colours of the spectrum to contain lyrics but couldn't exactly do it with 3 songs being instrumental.

Mystery solved

simpledumbpilot · Post by **simpledumbpilot** » Sat May 31, 2003 12:41 am

David Smith wrote:Sorry to spoil this conversation but it's cause they wanted to use 6 colours of the spectrum to contain lyrics but couldn't exactly do it with 3 songs being instrumental.

Mystery solved

Was that an idea introduced for the CD? Its just that the album was finished when Storm presented them with the artwork options so the band probably hadnt even thought of spectrums until they saw the classic image we all know and love today, and if they had thought about spectrums then they would have probably been thinking in terms of 7 colours not 6 as Storm actually missed a colour out by mistake (or so he says anyway) so it doesnt seem to tie in, and Breathe reprise was there from the very first performance before the album had been properly shaped so I can only guess that its there as a means of circulation as someone else suggested, or it might be some really straight forward thing like the band thought that it sounded really good and worked???. It all gets so confusing, can anyone shed any...erm....light (sorry) on this?

David Smith · Post by **David Smith** » Sat May 31, 2003 6:09 pm

Oh, sorry, i misread the question.

I dunno why it goes back to breathe, i guess it's to contrast the message of the reprise with the original breath's message. One's about living a life where you conform e.t.c while the reprise is about choosing how you live, this shown because the character decided to ignore religion.

Tommy · Post by **Tommy** » Sun Jun 01, 2003 6:46 pm

i always considered it a part of time

Powderfinger · Post by **Powderfinger** » Mon Jun 02, 2003 4:37 pm

David Smith wrote:Oh, sorry, i misread the question.

One's about living a life where you conform e.t.c while the reprise is about choosing how you live, this shown because the character decided to ignore religion.

Ignore religion ???
I missed that part

David Smith · Post by **David Smith** » Tue Jun 03, 2003 9:13 am

"Far away across the fields, the tolling of the iron bell, calls the faithful to their knees to hear the softly spoken agic spells"

Iron bells being associated with religion, the faithful being the people who go to the church or where ever and the softly spoken magic spells being what they are told. The narrator ignores riligon so that's why he calls them softly spoken magic spells.

And don't just take my word for it, Roger said that in Uncut this month.

Meddler · Post by **Meddler** » Tue Jun 03, 2003 9:18 am

Roger just takes all the fun out of... they mean what they mean for you- lyrics doesnt he!

David Smith · Post by **David Smith** » Tue Jun 03, 2003 9:24 am

Throughout the interview he does however say "i think the song's about..." rather than saying flat out what it means, he says what they mean to him.

Then again, i guess that is the overall meaning actually.

crofloyd · Post by **crofloyd** » Tue Jun 03, 2003 11:43 am

It is the seed of the Animals album, especially Sheep.

Powderfinger · Post by **Powderfinger** » Wed Jun 04, 2003 4:24 pm

I hear new stuff every time, never too old to learn

Thanks everybody