BREATH
FAITH
HILL
COMPOSERS: BENTLEY STEPHANIE KAY & LAMAR MARY HOLLADAY
COUNTRY: USA
ALBUM: BREATH
LABEL: WARNER
BROS
GENRE: COUNTRY
MUSIC
YEAR: 1999
"BREATH" IS A SONG WRITTEN BY STEPHANIE BENTLEY and HOLLY LAMAR and recorded by American COUNTRY MUSIC artist FAITH HILL. It was released in October 1999
as the first single from her fourth album of the SAME NAME. "Breathe" became
Hill's seventh number one on the HOT COUNTRY SONGS chart in the US. The song spent six weeks
at number one on the BILLBOARD HOT COUNTRY SONGS chart in December 1999 and January 2000. It
also peaked at number 2 on the BILLBOARD HOT 100 chart in April 2000. Despite not peaking at
number one, it was the NUMBER ONE SINGLE OF 2000, becoming only the
second single at the time to top the year end charts despite never spending a
week at the top of the weekly charts and marking the first time this had
happened in 35 years.
Audrey
Faith McGraw (née Perry; born September 21, 1967), known professionally as Faith
Hill, is an American singer and record producer. She is one of the most
successful country artists of all time, having sold more than 40 million albums
worldwide. Hill is married to American singer Tim McGraw, with whom she has
recorded several duets.
Hill's
first two albums, Take Me as I Am(1993) and It Matters to Me (1995), were major
successes and placed a combined three number ones on Billboard's country
charts. She then achieved mainstream and crossover success with her next two
albums, Faith(1998) and Breathe(1999). Faith spawned her first international
success in early 1998, "This Kiss", while Breathe became one of the
best-selling country albums of all time, led by the huge crossover success of
the songs "Breathe" and "The Way You Love Me". It had
massive sales worldwide and earned Hill three Grammy Awards.
In 2001,
she recorded "There You'll Be" for the Pearl Harbor soundtrack and it
became an international success and her best-selling single in Europe. Hill's
next two albums, Cry(2002) and Fireflies(2005), were both commercial successes;
the former spawned another crossover single, "Cry", which won Hill a
Grammy Award, and the latter produced the singles "Mississippi Girl"
and "Like We Never Loved at All", which earned her another Grammy
Award.
Hill has
won five Grammy Awards, 15 Academy of Country Music Awards, six American
Music Awards, and several other awards. Her Soul2Soul II Tour 2006 with McGraw
became the highest-grossing country tour of all time. In 2001, she was named
one of the "30 Most Powerful Women in America" by Ladies Home
Journal. In 2009, Billboard named her as the No. 1 Adult Contemporary
artist of the 2000s decade and also as the 39th best artist. From 2007 to 2012,
Hill was the voice of NBC Sunday Night Football's intro song. In 2019, Hill
will receive a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
I can
feel the magic floating in the air
Being with you gets me that way
I watch the sunlight dance across your face and I've
Never been this swept away
All my thoughts just seem to settle on the breeze
When I'm lying wrapped up in your arms
The whole world just fades away
The only thing I hear
Is the beating of your heart
'Cause I can feel you breathe
It's washing over me
Suddenly I'm melting into you
There's nothing left to prove
Baby all we need is just to be
Caught up in the touch
The slow and steady rush
Baby, isn't that the way that love's supposed to be
I can feel you breathe
Just breathe
In a way I know my heart is waking up
As all the walls come tumbling down
I'm closer than I've ever felt before
And I know
And you know
There's no need for words right now
'Cause I can feel you breathe
It's washing over me
Suddenly I'm melting into you
There's nothing left to prove
Baby all we need is just to be
Caught up in the touch
The slow and steady rush
Baby, isn't that the way that love's supposed to be
I can feel you breathe
Just breathe
Caught up in the touch
The slow and steady rush
Baby, isn't that the way that love's supposed to be
I can feel you breathe
Just breathe
I can feel the magic floating in the air
Being with you gets me that way.