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Verse

Chorus

Bridge

Same as chorus but add:

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We salute at the threshold of the North Sea in my mind

And the nautical board-man that drove me here to face the tide and

Swim I swim I swim

Dip the toe in the ocean. Oh how it hardens and it numbs

 And the rest of me is a burgeoned man built to collapse into crumbs

 And if I hadn't come down to the coast to disappear

I may have died in a land-slide of the rocks, the hopes and fears.

 So swim until you can't see land |

Swim until you can't see land |

| X2

Swim until you can't see land |

 Are you a man, are you a bag of sand? |

Up to my knees now, do I wait? Do I dive?

The sea has seen my like before though it's my first and perhaps last time.

Let's call me a baptist, call this the drowning of the past

She's there on the shoreline throwing stones at my back

 So swim until you can't see land |

Swim until you can't see land |

| X2

Swim until you can't see land |

 Are you a man, are you a bag of sand? |

Bridge

X2)

Now the water's taller than me and the land is a marker line

All I am is a body adrift in water, salt and sky

 So swim until you can't see land |

Swim until you can't see land |

| X2

Swim until you can't see land |

 Are you a man, are you a bag of sand? |

 Are you a man, are you a bag of sand?

 Are you a man, are you a bag of sand?

 Are you a man, are you a bag of sand?

 Are you a man, are you a bag of sand?