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Breathe Me” is the lead single from Sia’s third studio album Colour the Small One. It’s a sad, orchestral ballad about being in depression and needing a friend for comfort.

Sia told ilikemusic.com about recording this track:

It always felt like a good song that one. Sam and Felix had put the drums and bass down, they played it all live together one night after they’d been to dinner, and I was really sick with flu and I walked in the next day and the track was there without me singing on it and it was just so sleek. I don’t really listen to my own music. I don’t think most people listen to their own music after they’ve recorded it. Some of my musician friends get really anal and listen to it all the time, analyzing it. But once I’ve done it, I listen to it once and put it to bed, but with that one I was like, “yeah! Again! Again!”

“Breathe Me” introduced Sia to the United States, years before her smash single “Chandelier”. It received attention after being used for the finale of Six Feet Under. It continued to pop up on television over the years, including: Veronica Mars, The Hills, Orange Is the New Black, and even a Coca-Cola commercial for the 2010 Winter Olympics.

The music video was shot in a London theme hotel and was composed from 2500+ Polaroid stills.

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