Standard (EADGBE)
Verse
Chorus
Bridge
Same as chorus but add:
END:
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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?