Swimming (live from Hammersmith Apollo) Lyrics

Your songs remind me of swimming
Which I forgot when I started to sink
Dragged further away from the shore
And deeper into the drink.
Sat on the bottom of the ocean
A stern and stubborn rock
Cos your songs remind me of swimming
But somehow I forgot.

I was sinking and now I'm sunk
I was drinking and now I'm drunk
Your songs remind me of swimming
But somehow I forgot.

I tried to remember the chorus
I can't remember the verse
Cos that song that sent me swimming
Is now the life jacket that burst.

Rotting like a wreck on the ocean floor
Sinking like a siren that can't swim any more
Your songs remind me of swimming
But I can't swim any more.
Pull me out the water, cold and blue
I open my eyes and I see that it's you
So I dive straight back in the ocean
So I dive straight back in the ocean.

Take a deep breath, suck the water in my chest
Take a deep breath, suck the water in my chest
Cross my fingers and hope for the best

Then all of a sudden, I heard a note

It started in my chest and ended in my throat
And then I realised
And then I realised
And then I realised
And then I realised I was swimming
Yes I was swimming
And now I'm swimming
Yes I am swimming.
Your songs remind me of swimming
Which I forgot when I started to sink
Your songs remind me of swimming
Which I forgot when I started to sink

Oh, your songs remind me of swimming
Which I forgot when I started

Your songs remind me of swimming
Which I forgot when I started
To sink.