| The currents want to pull you down
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| The bottom is empty, invisible
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| Where is the shore
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| Oh I can’t see it anymore
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| Feeling so tired, have to keep floating
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| The bottom is so far away
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| The shore is so far away
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| The finish line is out of sight
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| I won’t give up without a fight
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| It’s such a long swim
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| The waves are coming at full force
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| And even though I thrash about
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| It only makes it worse
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| I only get more tired
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| Have I gotten out so far
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| I don’t know where the boat docks are
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| And the moon just laughs at me
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| A sickle in a cotton veil
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| Will I make it through this gale
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| It’s such a long swim
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| It’s such a long swim, it’s such a long swim
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| It’s such a long swim, it’s such a long swim
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| I was standing on a pier
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| Was it very far from here
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| Nothing but the water sounds
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| And if I had it in a glass
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| I could drink it down and laugh
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| I would laugh and drink it down
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| The water is so pure tonight
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| It brings you life yet makes you drown
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| The fish must be laughing
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| I have seen the boats of steel
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| I have used a fishing reel
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| I am bobbing like a cork
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| In this never-ending dark
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| I am soaked from toe to chin
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| I will not let the water in
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| Is there any use at all
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| To fight against this heavy tide
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| Will it take me in its stride
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| It’s such a long swim
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| It’s such a long swim, it’s such a long swim
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| I was sitting in the sand
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| Waves were tumbling with the wind
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| They pulled him out
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| They pulled him in
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| The stretcher brought him back again
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| The sirens let the swimmers know
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| Not to wrestle undertoes
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| It’s such a long swim
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| And now there is no sign of land
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| The breakers are behind me now
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| Splashing in a hopeless flow
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| Far above the muddy sand
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| Will I dry off on the rocks
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| Will I ever see the docks
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| The beacons must have all burnt out
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| I am flooded with this doubt
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| It’s such a long swim
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| It’s such a long swim, it’s such a long swim
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| It’s such a long swim, it’s such a long swim
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| It’s such a long swim, it’s such a long swim
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| It’s such a long swim, it’s such a long swim |