Hmmmmm. Really love the chorus in this incarnation, but the verses need more claustrophobic goop. I'm not sure if the original I'd describe that way, but you do get a sense of Jordin being actually out of breath, which lets you not think about the sorta weirdness of the metaphor, which they really stretch to the limit in this one. PAST the limit, but the song is so good it doesn't really matter. (Usually when you're suffocating it's because someone won't give you ENOUGH air, not because they've given you too much. Though I suppose it's possible to have too much oxygen, right?)