Cécile McLorin Salvant ‘With Every Breath I Take’
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🗓️ 3 June 2026
⏱️ 4 minutes
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Today’s Top Tune: Cécile McLorin Salvant ‘With Every Breath I Take’
Cécile McLorin Salvant announces With Every Breath I Take, her first album recorded with orchestra, arriving June 26. Backed by the Netherlands’ Metropole Orkest and conducted by Jules Buckley, Salvant brings cinematic depth to a collection of timeless songs transforming deeply personal material into something sweeping and intimate at once.
(Nonesuch Records)
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| 0:00.0 | The There's not a morning that I open up my eyes |
| 0:31.6 | and find I didn't dream of you. |
| 0:42.3 | Without a warning, though it's never a surprise, |
| 0:50.3 | soon as I awake |
| 0:54.5 | Thoughts of you arise |
| 1:00.0 | With every breath I take |
| 1:07.0 | With every breath that I take at any time. or play |
| 1:28.3 | I close my eyes and I see your face |
| 1:34.3 | and I see your face |
| 1:38.3 | and I'm embracing you. |
| 1:50.0 | If only I believe that dreams come true. |
| 2:11.6 | Darling, you were the one who said |
| 2:22.3 | Forever from the start |
| 2:26.3 | And I've been drifting since you've gone. |
| 2:37.0 | Out on a lonely sea that only you can charge, |
| 2:43.0 | I'll be going on, knowing that my heart will break. |
| 2:51.6 | With every breath I tear. I'm |
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