I looked at my reflection in the water   Thought what an unlikely pair   Closed my eyes, held my breath, plummeted down, down, down   And anchored myself there      Can't tell how long I've been   In the company of gills and tails   I think I feel my skin   Growing scales      Chorus:   Can I come up for air   Can I come up, can I come up   (repeat 3x)      I'm gettin' eaten up down here   I'm just not built like them   The big fish have a monopoly   The little fish get buried in the sand      This sea world I'm in   Sucks your life out, leaves you comatose   Take back your salt and fins   Send me a lifeboat      Chorus      I look up with longing at the surface   Hypnotized by the way the sunlight seems to ride each ripple   And they do a dance   Every ray becomes a beckoning hand   I miss the sweet taste of oxygen   I mistook this for the promised land      Chorus