The currents want to pull you down   The bottom is empty, invisible   Where is the shore   Oh I can’t see it anymore   Feeling so tired, have to keep floating   The bottom is so far away   The shore is so far away   The finish line is out of sight   I won’t give up without a fight   It’s such a long swim   The waves are coming at full force   And even though I thrash about   It only makes it worse   I only get more tired      Have I gotten out so far   I don’t know where the boat docks are   And the moon just laughs at me   A sickle in a cotton veil   Will I make it through this gale   It’s such a long swim   It’s such a long swim, it’s such a long swim   It’s such a long swim, it’s such a long swim      I was standing on a pier   Was it very far from here   Nothing but the water sounds   And if I had it in a glass   I could drink it down and laugh   I would laugh and drink it down   The water is so pure tonight   It brings you life yet makes you drown   The fish must be laughing      I have seen the boats of steel   I have used a fishing reel   I am bobbing like a cork   In this never-ending dark      I am soaked from toe to chin   I will not let the water in   Is there any use at all   To fight against this heavy tide   Will it take me in its stride   It’s such a long swim   It’s such a long swim, it’s such a long swim      I was sitting in the sand   Waves were tumbling with the wind   They pulled him out   They pulled him in   The stretcher brought him back again   The sirens let the swimmers know   Not to wrestle undertoes   It’s such a long swim      And now there is no sign of land   The breakers are behind me now   Splashing in a hopeless flow   Far above the muddy sand      Will I dry off on the rocks   Will I ever see the docks   The beacons must have all burnt out   I am flooded with this doubt   It’s such a long swim      It’s such a long swim, it’s such a long swim   It’s such a long swim, it’s such a long swim   It’s such a long swim, it’s such a long swim   It’s such a long swim, it’s such a long swim