Swimming Lessons - Lanterns On The Lake

For God’s sake, look at me straight

It will all be fine by the time we wake

You know you’ve been entombed in your own doubt

Like a floodlight in a power cut

Or Vincent’s Starry Night with the colour drained

Like a monochrome king lying in state

And you’ll never learn to swim keeping one foot on the ground

When they come for us pull me in tight anyway

And when they take their aim

Repeat after me when I say «I think the time’s come»

This fear that consumes you will be gone by the time those flowers bloom

And may you never look back

Because you’ll never learn to swim keeping one foot on the ground

When they come for us pull me in tight anyway

And when they take their aim

Repeat after me when I say «I think the time’s come to let go of the side»

I think the time’s come to let go of the side

I think the time’s come to let go of the side

I think the time’s come