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The Air I Breathe

from Uneven Slices Of Sky by Iain Clarke

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Ideally this should be me singing this. But in this key (which sounds best), it needs her, and she does a great job. One night sat up with my partner, she played me the official song for world autism day; a soft rock ballad which had the repeated line of ‘my autism is a prison, maybe someday we’ll both see.’ She said at the end, ‘I think this is true.’ I inwardly hated it. It seemed to focus on all the negative aspects of what having a child with autism can mean and bring. She saw my face and asked me what I thought. I told her the song didn’t speak to me. My time with her son; my stepson had been a revelation, I’d seen life from a totally different angle he’d shown me parts of me I never knew existed and being part of his upbringing, while never easy, is a privilege. The word ‘prison’ for a happy, caring young man seemed so inappropriate. This song speaks of my feelings and hopes for him; my sense of pride and awe in every day I spend with him, but I would hope it also applies to any parent.

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Though you hear every word I speak,
It’s like distant sounds beneath your feet;
It’s high ground with nowhere to turn.
So I’ll show the words between the lines
And maybe with some space and time
You’ll come round and then you’ll learn

That everything I say and do
Is a way to try to break on through
To the world you keep the keys unto
Where everything make sense to you

But all I give you,
Is all the air I breathe.

In the time between the days and hours,
Where daylight sleeps and night devours
You walk tall; you make it right.
And the way you work doesn’t always go,
In life you shine a light that shows
The fault lines; the cracks between

The lies we often call the truth
The evidence that has no proof
The polished glass that makes a roof
That holds us down to all we do
And all I can give you
Is all the air I breathe.

So shine my boy,
Bright for all to see,
Shine my boy,
Find the light in me.

That everything I say and do
Is a way to try to break on through
To the world you keep the keys unto
Where everything make sense to you

But all I can give you is all the air I breathe.

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from Uneven Slices Of Sky, released December 16, 2015
Lead vocals by Gemma Jarrett.
Instruments and backing vocals by Iain Clarke

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Iain Clarke Wakefield, UK

Hailing from Leeds, West Yorkshire, and now residing in Wakefield, a songwriter and multi-instrumentalist in his own right, Iain has played with well received Yorkshire bands including Hobson, Ringo and the Wolf, Late Arrivals Club, Crossland Fold and Nine Violets as well as releasing an album with respected New York artist Marc Teamaker and songs alongside Craig Buchannan as 2018 BC. ... more

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