Breathe (Pink Floyd song)

"Breathe"
Song by Pink Floyd from the album The Dark Side of the Moon
Published	World Copyrights Ltd
Released	1 March 1973
Recorded	June 1972 – January 1973
Genre	Progressive rock, psychedelic rock
Length	2:47
Label	Harvest
Writer(s)	David Gilmour, Roger Waters, Richard Wright
Producer(s)	Pink Floyd

"Breathe (In The Air)" is a song by progressive rock band Pink Floyd on their 1973 album The Dark Side of the Moon.

The authorship and composition of this song is credited to David Gilmour, Richard Wright and Roger Waters for the music, and 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 lush 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 electric piano in place of Hammond organ and Rhodes piano.

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".

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