Jordin Sparks and Chris Brown bring together an aggressively passionate duet that fits so many intense occasions aptly. I love how they are depicted in the video, constantly yelling at each other. This manifests the maddening love amidst incompatibility. It’s rather confusing. But, there is definitely no lack of emotion from either side. You can view it as a compelling situation, maybe there are fundamental or irreconcilable differences between this couple that is habituated to each other’s company that could probably be heavily toxic. But, the farce of psychological acclimated comfort prevents them from reviewing reality. Another interpretation is the typical painful breakup situation everyone assumes this song to be about. If you analyze the lyrics, it could also be applicable to the death of a very intimate consort, maybe a spouse, a partner, parent, child, or even a very close BFF. The dominant soprano in this song is unable to cope with the loss of the deceased, while the tenor grieves his earnest efforts. The tenor cannot be blamed for lack of attempt. He tried and tried in vain resilience …until he finally reluctantly died/exited. And, just like all my music-inspired poems, I suggest playing the song{which I have embedded below for your convenience} as you read; it truly elevates the experience!
No Air – poem by Ruelha
How can one breathe without air? I've lost interest in everything; I no longer care How can one appreciate other things When life's running out and they're suffocating! I'd rather die before I wake Because anymore this pain I can't take You snatched my breath away While in lonely isolation, I lay How and why am I still breathing? I'm gasping for air and I'm struggling If only there were a way I'd swim through the dismay How am I still alive Must be a reason for me to survive I'm breathing when there's no air Somehow I'm alive; but I ain't there I walked, I ran, I jumped, I flew I did more than a human could do But still landed at the inevitable endpoint After glueing and taping several holes and joints Not resting peacefully in my grave, yet I'm six feet deep In my lungs, water has begun to aspirate and seep I can't even see the surface anymore I'm right at the bottom of the ocean floor And I'm struggling to breathe with no air Somehow I'm still alive; but I ain't there I don't know how and why, but I'm still alive There must be a reason for me to survive
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Lyrics of ‘No Air’ by Jordin Sparks and Chris Brown
Tell me how I'm supposed to breathe with no air? If I should die before I wake It's 'cause you took my breath away Losing you is like living in a world with no air, oh I'm here alone, didn't wanna leave My heart won't move, it's incomplete Is there a way I could make you understand? But how Do you expect me, to live alone with just me? 'Cause my world revolves around you It's so hard for me to breathe Tell me how I'm supposed to breathe with no air? Can't live, can't breathe with no air That's how I feel whenever you ain't there There's no air, no air Got me out here in the water so deep Tell me how you gon' be without me? If you ain't here I just can't breathe There's no air, no air No air air, No air air I walked, I ran, I jumped, I flew right off The ground and float to you There's no gravity to hold me down, for real But somehow I'm still alive inside You took my breath but I survived I don't know how but I don't even care So how do you expect me to live alone with just me? 'Cause my world revolves around you It's so hard for me to breathe Tell me how I'm supposed to breathe with no air? Can't live, can't breathe with no air That's how I feel whenever you ain't there There's no air, no air Got me out here in the water so deep Tell me how you gon' be without me? If you ain't here I just can't breathe There's no air, no air No air air, No air air Tell me how I'm supposed to breathe with no air? Can't live, can't breathe with no air That's how I feel whenever you ain't there There's no air, no air Got me out here in the water so deep Tell me how you gon' be without me? If you ain't here I just can't breathe There's no air, no air No air air, No air air Got me here out in the water so deep Tell me how you goin' be without me? If you ain't here I just can't breathe There's no air, no air No air air, no air air
Wow a nice mermaid or siren breathing. That’s my attawoman Ruelha!. Take care 🙂
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Still surviving 😉 Thanks, David. Hope you had a lovely weekend 🙂
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Take care Ruelha and all the best 🙂
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THE GIFT EVEN GREATER
THAN ROAST BEAST PIG OH LORD
Oh my Gosh Dear Rue As Soon
As i Saw The Title Of “No Air”
And The
Underwater
Illustration Now
A Song Immediately Comes
RiSinG From my Subconscious
Mind Along With A Video Yes That
iLLuSTRaTES Your Lyrics Before
i Even Read them Okay i’ll Do
That Now Be WRiTE Back…
Yes Lord Yes And
Perhaps i’ve
Shared This Song
With You Before Dancing it
Yet HAha Even in The Older Bible they
Provide Similar Stories then to Better
Illustrate Deeper Points of Soul SPiRiT
HeART BEATS Breathing Or Suffocating too
YeS On A Beach Yet Not Recovering in 2013 in
July Yes January of 2008 At The Beginning of Hell
Yet i CaMe To Realize The Beach Really Lives Within
me Then As Suddenly All the Oneness of Existence Gone
From my Grasp A Love For All Suffocating Then With No Eyes
Or Ears Beyond Organs to Feel And Sense Green All the Colors
Sublime Within That Are So Invisibly God And Real in Connecting
All That Is It’s TRue Then Realizing i had Been Romancing God All Along
And Didn’t Even Realize The Gift Then Now of Heaven Within i Had at 16 WaLKinG
One With Those Emerald Green Waves Sea Oats in the Breeze Sugar White Sands Yes
You’ll Hear, Feel, Sense, And See it Again Reborn Wings of All the Seagulls in FLiGHT
On Land me
Spiraling
Wings Mine
ANeW The Sun
Free Before Yet So Very Lost
Yes So Very Lost All i Wanted
To Do Is Drown Myself in the
Ocean Just to Be the Ocean Water
Waves Whole Inhaling Peace And Exhaling Love
Again No One Ever Really Explained even in the Old
Bible How All of this May Be Lost Now Yet SeeKinG Returning
Finding
Never
Leaving
Again Now
AS UNderwater
Becomes Ocean Whole
Water All US Living Tree
Leaf Whole Again All That is
Comes To Breath Again Reborn US Now…
THeRE are Some Romances Greater Than The
Air Above And Sea Below Ocean Within When We Become
The
Beach
For Real
SMiLinG With
All the Colors
of Gratitude For
This Only Breath Within
God Now Presently We aRe THE GIFT…
Oh Yeah And Back to that FlesH and Blood
Romancy Trancy Fancy Feeling So Very Deep
So Very
Underwater
Precipice
Of Hell And
Heaven Where
Love Meets Loss
And ReTuRNS AGAiN
And Again And Again
And Again And Again Unrequiting
Waves Shores Expanding Receding Now
Expanding Never Beginning Never Ending
Never Finishing Always Starting Now
ReNeWinG Dear Rue
The Ocean
The Beach
The Waves
Shores Alive
Drink of Water
ALL Ours to BREaTHE Roots Vines
Living Trees All Leaves Green CoLoRinG Love (GoD) More..:)
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Reblogged this on Ned Hamson's Second Line View of the News.
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Thank you for sharing my poem, Ned. 🙂
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