Swim Until You Can't See Land lyrics

I salute at the threshold

Of the North Sea of my mind

And I nod to the boredom

That brought me here to face the tide

And swim, swim, swim, oh

Dip a toe in the ocean

Oh, how it hardens and it numbs

And the rest of me is a version of man

Built to collapse in crumbs

And if I hadn't to come here

To the coast of disappear

I might have died in a landslide

Of rocks and hopes and fears

So swim until you can't see land

Swim until you can't see land

Swim until you can't see land

Are you a man? Are you a bag of sand?

Swim until you can't see land

Swim until you can't see land

Swim until you can't see land

Are you a man? Are you a bag of sand?

Up to my knees now

Do I wade or do I dive?

The sea has seen my like before

Though it's my first and perhaps last time

Just call me a baptist

Call it a drowning of the past

She is there at the shoreline

Throwing stones at my back

So swim until you can't see land

Swim until you can't see land

Swim until you can't see land

Are you a man? Are you a bag of sand?

Swim until you can't see land

Swim until you can't see land

Swim until you can't see land

Are you a man? Are you a bag of sand?

And the water is taller than me

And the land is a marker line

All we own is a body adrift in water, salt and a sky

So swim until you can't see land

Swim until you can't see land

Swim until you can't see land

Are you a man? Are you a bag of sand?

Swim until you can't see land

Swim until you can't see land

Swim until you can't see land

Are you a man? Are you a bag of sand?

Are you a man? Are you a bag of sand?

Are you a man? Are you a bag of sand?

Are you a man? Are you a bag of sand?

• Artist:Karine Polwart
• Album:Karine Polwart's Scottish Songbook (2019)