Swim Until You Can't See Land

I salute at the threshold of the North Sea

Of my mind

And I nod to the boredom that drove me here

To face the tide

And I swim

(Oh-oh, oh-oh)

I swim, oh swim

(Oh-oh, oh-oh)

Dip a toe in the ocean, oh how it hardens

And it numbs

The rest of me is a version of man

Built to collapse and crumb

And if I hadn't come now

To the coast to disappear

I may have died in a landslide

Of rocks and hopes and fears

So I swim until you can't see land

Swim until you can't see land

Swim until you can't see land

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

Swim until you can't see land

Swim until you can't see land

Swim until you can't see land

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

Do I wade?

The sea has seen my like before

Though it's my first and perhaps last time

Let's call me a baptist

Call this a drowning of the past

She is there on the shoreline

Throwing stones at my back

So I swim until you can't see land

Swim until you can't see land

Swim until you can't see land

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

Swim until you can't see land

Swim until you can't see land

Swim until you can't see land

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

And the water is taller than me

And the land is a marker line

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

So I swim until you can't see land

Swim until you can't see land

Swim until you can't see land

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

Swim until you can't see land

Swim until you can't see land

Swim until you can't see land

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

Swim until you can't see land

Swim until you can't see land

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?

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?