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The song's lyrics center on experiencing life to its fullest, while also becoming a better person. Released in June 2004 as the lead single from the album, the song became an enormous success in the U.S. It spent seven weeks atop of the Billboard country music
Learning to Breathe is the third studio album by the band Switchfoot.It was released on September 26, 2000. [7] It was their final record for independent label re:think Records, which was distributed by Sparrow Records.
The video for the song was devised and directed by London-based Irish artist Michelle Deignan. [ 13 ] The debut album, Hollow Ponds , named after an area of Epping Forest near where Carney lives, and was hospitalised following his leg fracture, [ 14 ] was released in July 2014. [ 15 ]
Jumping out of a plane was like nothing else I'd ever done — or will do again. The recommended height for a first-time tandem jump is at least 10,000 feet to give about a minute in free fall ...
The lyrics depict the misadventures of a stereotypically "naive and pugnacious" [5] Irishman named Dan McGinty; the last verse describes his suicide by drowning: "Down went McGinty / to the bottom of the sea". Film historian Jeff Jaeckle has described McGinty's actions as "conform(ing) to contemporaneous anti-Irish prejudice". [6]
Originally, the song was titled "Army Air Corps."Robert MacArthur Crawford wrote the initial first verse and the basic melody line in May 1939. [1] During World War II, the service was renamed "Army Air Forces" because of the change in the main U.S. Army's air arm naming in mid-1941, and the song title changed to agree.
The chorus mimics the chorus in The Battle Hymn of the Republic, replacing the lyrics "Glory, glory, hallelujah! His truth is marching on." with "Gory, gory, what a hell of a way to die! He ain't gonna jump no more." [2] [3] The song is a cautionary tale on the dangers of improper preparation for a parachute jump. [4]
The song plays in the background as a newsreel is shown in a movie theater. Three other songs by Jack Shaindlin can be heard on the director's cut of "Pearl Harbor" when you look through the bonus features of the other three discs of the four disc set. "At The Pool", "All Disc & Heaven Too" and "Let's Go Sunning" are used.