Breathe (Pink Floyd song)
"Breathe (In the Air)" is a song by English progressive rock band Pink Floyd it appears on their 1973 album "The Dark Side of the Moon". Authorship and composition. The authorship and composition of this song is credited to David Gilmour and Richard Wright for the music and Roger Waters for the lyrics. "Dark Side", admitted the latter, "is a little adolescent and naïve in its preoccupations, but I'm not belittling it. It's like a rather wonderful, naïve painting. 'Breathe in the air / Don't be afraid to care' – that's the opening couplet . Well, yeah, I can cop that, but it's kind of simplistic stuff." The song is slow-paced and rich in texture, and features Gilmour playing the electric guitar with a Uni-Vibe and lap steel guitar with a volume pedal and several overdubs. On the original album, it is a separate track from "Speak to Me", the sound collage that opens the first side. Since this track segues into "Breathe" via a sustained backwards piano chord, the two are conjoined on most CD versions of the album. A one-minute reprise features at the end of the song "Time , without the slide guitar and using Farfisa organ and Wurlitzer electronic piano in place of Hammond organ and Rhodes piano. The chords for much of the song alternate between E minor(add9) and A major, with a turnaround appearing before the verses and then functioning as a chorus, consisting of C major seventh, B minor seventh, F major seventh, D7(9) and D7(9). Along with the other Pink Floyd tracks, Time" and "The Great Gig in the Sky", "Breathe" is seen as Gilmour "carving out a more distinctive style" with the introduction of blues-based chords and solos. "Breathe" has also been  seen to "embrace ecology". This song was one of several to be considered for the band's "best of" album, "".