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PERFORMING ARTISTS
Frightened Rabbit
Frightened Rabbit
Performer
COMPOSITION & LYRICS
Scott Hutchison
Scott Hutchison
Composer
Grant Hutchison
Grant Hutchison
Composer
Andrew Monaghan
Andrew Monaghan
Composer
David William Lawrence Kennedy
David William Lawrence Kennedy
Composer

Lyrics

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?
Written by: Andrew Monaghan, David William Lawrence Kennedy, Grant Hutchison, Scott Hutchison
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