Swim Until You Can't See Land

We 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, I swim, swim

Dip a toe in the ocean, oh how it hardens and it numbs
And the rest of me is a version of man built to collapse and 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

Oh, 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 I wade? Do I dive?
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

Oh, 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

Oh, 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?