Songtext von Swimming

Watching the surfers on the Birling Gap A few times I nearly packed up my bag You said: Baby please don't leave There is so much we've left to see Stay with me I said I would marry you If I could get a passport to Work in the land of riches Live our lives through pictures Bathing in the sea Searching for fish while you're searching for me You pressed your hands against the darkest spaces of my skin Tell me my body has been so beautifully lived in I almost fell apart when you looked straight at my heart And said: Baby, swim We went to your mother's house Driving through The Deep South Mountains and red wine The best I've tasted in my life You said: Stay with me You pressed your hands against the darkest spaces of my skin Tell me my body has been so beautifully lived in I almost fell apart, when you looked straight at my heart And said baby, swim You said baby, we're just bathing You said baby, we're just bathing You said baby, we're just bathing Watching the surfers on the Birling Gap A few times I nearly packed up my bags You said: Baby please don't leave Stay with me