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. It was released as the first single from their debut album, ''

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''. The single was released on

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on June 29, 2010, followed by the music video being released on June 30, 2010, where it premiered on

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Background

The song was written by the group prior to the release of their self-titled EP. At that time, "Take One Last Breath" was titled "Pedestrians Is Another Word for Speedbump". Angelo Aita explained that the song name was changed because the band "changed the song completely...so it's like a new name for a new song" and that

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, "wanted bandon All Shipsto shorten he song titlebecause it was really long."

Music video

The music video premiered on

on August 27, 2010 and on

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'' on August 24, 2010. The music video for the song was directed by Davin Black of 235films, and is a performance-only style music video. It primarily features the band performing either on the ground, or on higher platforms with their instruments. A

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video was posted to Abandon All Ships'

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page on July 5, 2010, showing a dispute about lasers that were apparently supposed to be in the video.

Re-recorded differences

The differences between "Take One Last Breath" and "Pedestrians Is Another Word for Speedbump" are minor. A main difference is that "Take One Last Breath" is longer by 21 seconds, and does not include the synth patches from "Pedestrians" during the breakdown. The middle part of the song where is says "captain captain, before the sail rips" repeats three times in "Pedestrians", yet is said only twice in "Take One Last Breath", first "captain captain, before the sail rips", then "captain captain, I can see enemy ships" before repeating the first term. Lastly, "Pedestrians" does not repeat the chorus at the end, but simply ends with the breakdown.

Track listing

#"Take One Last Breath" (video version) — 3:39 #"Take One Last Breath" (album version) — 3:45

Charts

References

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