🔊 Genre: Alternative Rock / Pop Rock / Hard Rock / Grunge
🎧 Title: Halfway Between Breaths
🎚️ Artist: The Mainside Project

Halfway Between Breaths is an intense and emotional alternative rock track that explores the fragile space between closeness and distance, holding on and letting go.

Blending the raw emotion of Alternative Rock, the melodic accessibility of Pop Rock, the weight and energy of Hard Rock, and subtle Grunge / Post-Grunge influences, the song builds a powerful contrast between intimacy and tension.
From restrained verses to a cathartic chorus, it captures the feeling of being suspended in a moment where every breath carries meaning.

This track reflects vulnerability, emotional conflict, and the quiet intensity that lives between words, between choices, between breaths.

🎵 Send this to someone who understands what it means to feel everything, even in silence.

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Lyrics

The room is filled with echoes
Of things we didn’t say
Time feels like it’s bending
Every time you walk away

I trace the cracks in silence
Like maps I never chose
Every door I ever opened
Led to something I don’t know

I tried to stay untouched
Tried to keep my balance
But loving you feels like
Living in between chances

I’m halfway between breaths
Trying not to fall apart
Holding onto moments
While they’re tearing me apart

I’m halfway between breaths
Every truth, every lie
If this is how love feels
I won’t ask it why

Your voice is in the static
Between the songs I play
Every note keeps shaking
What I thought had slipped away

I build my walls with questions
Then tear them down again
Funny how I feel the safest
Right where it hurts the most

I tell myself I’m fine
Like it’s something I believe
But every time I close my eyes
You’re all I see

I’m halfway between breaths
Trying not to fall apart
Holding onto moments
While they’re tearing me apart

I’m halfway between breaths
Every truth, every lie
If this is how love feels
I won’t ask it why

If I let the silence win
Would I finally be free?
Or would I miss the pain
That once felt like you and me

Still halfway between breaths
Letting go, holding on
Maybe love was never meant
To know when it’s gone

I breathe in
I let go

Halfway Between Breaths

We met in the haze of a digital glow
Swiped right on destiny, putting on quite a show
Your laugh was a melody, my world in a spin
Didn't ask 'bout your history, just wanted you in
Swore blind that our love was bigger than all
Didn't care for your God, didn't care for my call
"Culture's a concept," we'd drunkenly preach
"Love is the language, beyond any reach."

We built us a fortress, just you and just me
Ignoring the whispers of what used to be
Said family was background, a harmless old tale
Our future was shiny, destined to sail...

But then the pink cloud started to fade
The sweet, naive promises we made
And suddenly the shadows started to creep
The roots of our families, buried so deep
Is it the glue that holds us in place?
Or the fault line that cracks with no trace?
The unspoken drama, the hidden design
Damn, this family thing is way more than mine.

Your Sunday roast dinners felt strangely profound
My chaotic gatherings, no silence was found
Small habits, small comments, a look in your eye
A difference in thinking, just passing us by
You talked 'bout traditions, I shrugged and said "Why?"
I craved independence, beneath a free sky
We tried to pretend it was nothing, you see
Just us against gravity, wild and so free.

We built us a fortress, just you and just me
Ignoring the whispers of what used to be
Said family was background, a harmless old tale
Our future was shiny, destined to sail...

But then the pink cloud started to fade
The sweet, naive promises we made
And suddenly the shadows started to creep
The roots of our families, buried so deep
Is it the glue that holds us in place?
Or the fault line that cracks with no trace?
The unspoken drama, the hidden design
Damn, this family thing is way more than mine.

Sometimes it's comfort, a hand in the storm
A shared understanding, keeping us warm
Other times it's barbed wire, a wall in between
The unspoken battles, a difficult scene
We thought we were stronger, a world of our own
But a tree can't forget where its seed has been sown.

'Cause now the pink cloud has completely just faded
The naive promises, severely degraded
And suddenly the shadows are here, wide and deep
The roots of our families, buried so deep
Is it the glue that holds us in place?
Or the fault line that cracks with no trace?
The unspoken drama, the hidden design
Damn, this family thing is way more than mine.

Yeah, way more than mine...
That love and that culture intertwined.

ROTTENBRAIN - When The Pink Cloud’s Fade (original) by ARGYTACT 2026

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