Breathe

I'm really enjoying the lyrics and song Breathe from No Line on the Horizon.
It wasn't an initial track that caught my attention - but the reference to the cockatoo is one of the album's most humorous moments.
The song is a signal to us all of what posture we take into life, especially when we are bombarded by bad news stories, worst case scenarios (bird flu, global recession etc), and people peddling self-help ideas based on their doom-based theories. 'There's nothing you have that I need' is a great line for people who seem to think they have to have everything and get devastated when inevitably the bottom falls out of their extravagance.
There is an alternative: 'got a love that you can't defeat' is a great line to use as you poke your nose at the doomsday soothsayers who are alive and well in the church as anywhere. The closing lines sum up the God-centred alternative ... have a read:
"Breathe"
16th of June, nine-oh-five, door bell rings
Man at the door says if I want to stay alive a bit longer
There’s a few things I need you to know
Three

Coming from a long line of
Traveling sales people on my mother’s side
I wasn’t gonna buy just anyone’s cockatoo
So why would I invite a complete stranger into my home
Would you?

These days are better than that
These days are better than that
Every day I die again, and again I’m reborn
Every day I have to find the courage
To walk out into the street
With arms out
Got a love you can’t defeat
Neither down nor out
There’s nothing you have that I need

I can breathe
Breathe now

16th of June, Chinese stocks are going up
And I’m coming down with some new Asian virus
Ju Ju man, Ju Ju man
Doc says you’re fine, or dying
Please

Nine-oh-nine, St. John Divine on the line, my pulse is fine
But I’m running down the road like loose electricity
While the band in my head plays a striptease

The roar that lies on the other side of silence
The forest fire that is fear so deny it
Walk out into the street
Sing your heart out
The people we meet
Will not be drowned out
There’s nothing you have that I need

I can breathe
Breathe now
Yeah, yeah

We are people borne of sound
The songs are in our eyes
Gonna wear them like a crown
Walk out, into the sunburst street
Sing your heart out, sing my heart out

I’ve found grace inside a sound
I found grace, it’s all that I found
And I can breathe
Breathe now