Swim - Daughter

Sink to the bottom

Only to wind up belly-up on your bedroom floor

Innocuous form

I’m underwater half of the day

But still, you wade till I’m ready to float

And carry me home

We’ll be alright in the morning

When the world is on fire we’ll be treading in the yard

Till I’m ready to float

And you carry me home

We’re dancing outside in the purple dark

By the blood that we shed on the boulevard

I know that you carry me home

You carry me home to swim

(Swim, swim, to swim)

Locked to the love seat

Flash me your front teeth

It’s cherry and bone, cherry and bone

You are the athlete

I am the astronaut, for thousands of miles I float

Still, you carry me home

We’ll be alright in the morning

When the world is on fire we’ll be treading in the yard

Till I’m ready to float

And you carry me home

We’re dancing outside in the purple dark

By the blood that we shed on the boulevard

I know that you carry me home

You carry me home to swim, (swim)

The world is on fire

(and you carry me)

And I’m ready to

(carry me home)

To swim, swim

The world is on fire and I’m ready to float

Goodbye to my mother whose body I lived in

Turned blood into water and taught me to swim

We’ll be alright in the morning

When the world is on fire we’ll be treading in the yard

Till I’m ready to float

And you carry me home

We’re dancing outside in the purple dark

By the blood that we shed on the boulevard

I know that you carry me home

You carry me home to swim

(Swim, swim, to swim)

Carry me home (to swim)