High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! "It Only Hurts When I`m Breathing" is a song performed by Canadian singer-songwriter Shania Twain. The track was composed by Twain and her then-husband Robert John "Mutt" Lange, and produced by Lange. It was released on February 9, 2004 by Mercury Nashville Records, as the eighth and final single from Twain`s fourth studio album, Up! (2002), fifth to impact the North American market. Disparate to the remainder of Up!, "It Only Hurts when I`m Breathing" is a ballad that Twain labeled to be the sole heartbreak song on the album. Musically, it lies within the country pop genre while its lyrics speak of misery.