Swimming Songtext
von Florence + the Machine

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
′Cause 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
'Cause 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 anymore
Your songs remind me of swimming
But I can′t swim anymore.

Pull me out the water, cold and blue
I open my eyes and 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
Then I realized, then I realized,
Then I realized 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.