Breathe - Commentary

Right now we are celebrating Fearless

And you know I mentioned a little while ago

That Taylor Swift tends to write a lot about love

But it's not always happy songs

Breathe is another sad song

I like sad songs, it's a song about having to say goodbye to somebody

And the chorus just says over and over again

I can't breathe without you but I have to

And it's sort of like a mantra that I've said to myself on more than one occasion

Like I can't breathe without you but I have to

I have to do this, I have to, I can't but I have to

And so I wanted to write with Colbie so bad

Because I've been such a fan of her record

And she was one of my favorite, favorite new artist of this last year

And I contacted her management

And said, "Please let me write with her, I really want to meet her and I wanna write with her"

And so she came into the show in Nashville and they made sure that I had that day off

And so I met with her at her management company and brought her this idea

And we wrote it together and it's about losing a person who feels like a piece of you

Feels like a piece of you is missing but you have to because you have no choice

Off of Fearless, this is Breathe on Big Machine Radio