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When you’re pushed to your limit, you stop breathing.
Without even noticing, your shoulders tense up, your breath grows shallow, and your world narrows to a pinpoint——
Norio Ikeda’s new single “Breath” is a song that reaches you in that exact moment and says: slow down, take a breath. You’re not done yet.

🎵 About the Song

“まだいける (Still Got This)” and “Breath” share the same soul.
The strength of a person who pushes past their limit. The inner voice that pulls you back from the edge of giving up. The quiet, solitary effort that no one else ever sees.
But “Breath” brings something uniquely its own — a focus on the most fundamental act of being alive: breathing itself.
No matter how cornered you feel, you never stop breathing. And as long as you’re breathing, you can keep moving forward. The title holds a message that is both simple and profound: if you’re still breathing, you can still fight.

🌬️ When You Find Your Breath, You Find Your Strength

Athletes, surgeons, musicians — when pressure reaches its peak, the first thing any of them do is take a deep breath.
Steadying your breath is not weakness. It’s preparation for the next step forward. It calms a panicked mind, restores scattered focus, and brings strength back to trembling legs. “Breath” captures that precise moment — the pause before the push.
When you feel like you’re about to collapse, stopping to breathe isn’t giving up. It’s the run-up before you leap past your own limits.
Steady your breathing. This isn’t over yet.
That message is delivered through this song quietly, but with unmistakable conviction, to everyone who has run out of steam.

💨 “まだいける” and “Breath” — Two Songs, One Spirit

Norio Ikeda explored the same theme from two different angles, in two different languages.
If “まだいける (Still Got This)” is energy exploding outward from within, then “Breath” is the act of pausing, drawing a deep breath, and finding the strength to step forward again. Both are anthems for anyone standing at their limit — but each one reaches you differently.
When you’re so deep in it you can’t see straight — put on “Breath.” Sometimes one steady breath is all it takes to change the view.

🎧 Listen Now

Stream on Apple Music 👇
“Breath” — Norio Ikeda (池田典生)
Also available on Spotify, TikTok, and all major streaming platforms.

🎤 About the Artist: Norio Ikeda (池田典生)

Norio Ikeda is a singer-songwriter based in the Tokyo/Saitama area of Japan. He writes about the struggles of people who work hard every day, the loneliness of chasing a dream, and the quiet resilience of those who keep going anyway — in both Japanese and English.
From “完走した朝 (The Morning After the Finish Line)” to “また春が来た (Spring Has Come Again),” “ただの俺でいい (Just Being Me Is Enough),” “Studio at 11 PM,” and “まだいける (Still Got This)” — and now “Breath” — his growing body of work forms one long, unbroken anthem for everyone trying to live their life with everything they’ve got.

✍️ When Did a Single Deep Breath Change Everything for You?

Has there ever been a moment when you were completely overwhelmed — and one breath was what brought you back?
Listen to “Breath” and let that memory find you. We’d love to hear your story in the comments 🌬️

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