Breathing (song)

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“Breathing”
Single by Kate Bush from the album Never For Ever
B-side	"The Empty Bullring"
Released	14 April 1980
Format	7" single
Recorded	1979
Genre	Art rock
Length	4:52 (Single edit) 5:30 (Album version)
Label	EMI 5058
Writer(s)	Kate Bush
Producer	Kate Bush
Kate Bush singles chronology
"On Stage" (1979) "Breathing" (1980) "Babooshka" (1980)
Music sample
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"Breathing" is a single by Kate Bush, the first cut from her 1980 album Never For Ever.

The single was issued on April 14, 1980, four months before the album was released, and reached number 16 in the UK charts. It was the first single by Bush to feature a non-LP track on its B-side, "The Empty Bullring".

"Breathing" is about a foetus, very much aware of what is going on outside the womb and frightened to be born into a world poisoned by nuclear fallout. In an interview that year Bush described the song as her "little symphony", adding that she considered it her best work to date.^[1]

The music video features Bush in a womb portraying a baby, slowly dying.

[edit] Charts

Chart (1980)	Peak position
UK Singles Chart	16

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