Just Keep Breathing

Album: Somewhere Somehow (2013)
Charted: 66 92
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Songfacts®:

  • This inspirational track finds Travis Clark singing about perseverance when faced with ridicule. "When love is all too hard to hold, just take a breath and let it go," he coos. The song is about how Clark was bullied throughout his childhood.
  • Clark explained in a 2014 Move magazine interview: "When I wrote that, it was a song that was going to come out no matter what. I wanted an outlet for those kids to realize it’s not gonna be that way forever, that there’s a way to get past it. If there's anybody out there who looks up to me, I’d want them to know that I did go through that, and it breaks my heart when I hear kids committing suicide or becoming depressed because of bullying, and I wanted to take a stand."

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