Swimming (Live From Hammersmith Apollo / 2010)

Your songs remind me of swimming

Which I forgot when I started to sink

Drank further away from the shore

And deeper into the drink

Sat on the bottom of the ocean,

A stern and stubborn rock

Your songs remind me of swimming,

But somehow I forgot

I was sinking, but now I'm sunk

And I was drinking, and now I'm drunk

Your songs remind me of swimming

But somehow I forgot

I tried to remember the chorus

I can't remember the verse

That song that sent me swimming

Is now the life jacket that burst

Rotting like a wreck on the ocean floor

Sinking like a siren that can't swim anymore

Your songs remind me of swimming

But I can't swim any more

Pull me out the water, cold and blue

I open my eyes and I see that it's you

So I dive straight back in the ocean

So I dive straight back in the ocean

Take a deep breath, suck the water in my chest

Take a deep breath, suck the water in my chest

And cross my fingers, and hope for the best

Then all of a sudden, I heard a note

It started in my chest and ended in my throat

Then I realized, then I realized, then I realized

I was swimming, yes, I was swimming

And now I'm swimming, yes, I am

Your songs remind me of swimming

Which I forgot when I started to sink

Your songs remind me of swimming

Which I forgot when I started to sink