I
salute at
the threshold of the North Sea, and my mind
And I nod to the boredom that
drove me here to face the tide
And swim, I swim,
oh swim
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 in crumbs
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
Up to my knees now do a wave,
do a dive
You see I see my life and for 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
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