Keep Breathing starts slowly, but builds, quietly adding elements until it becomes an incredibly intense and dramatic piano driven number. “I want to change the world, instead I sleep. I want to believe in more than you and me but all that I know is I'm breathing. All I can do is keep breathing …”
On the opposite end of that spectrum is The Way I Am (recorded live on WERS, Emerson College radio) a song that might have been sung on the plane in The Wedding Singer had Adam Sandler's character been a woman. Michaelson sings cheerfully over a bubbly acoustic guitar, “I'd buy you Rogaine when you start losing all your hair, sew on patches to all you tear, 'cause I love you more than I could ever promise and you take me the way I am.”
Staten Island native Michaelson sounds more like she's from an island in the Pacific in her version of Somewhere Over The Rainbow. It sounds like a cover of a cover, with her version being clearly inspired by Hawaiian Israel Kamakawiwa'ole's version. Michaelson's rendition, however, is just as soothing and sweet.
