Swim Until You Can't See Land

We salute at the threshold of the North Sea of my mind And I nod to the boredom that drove me here to face the tide And I swim, I swim, swim 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 and crumbs And if I hadn't come now to the coast to disappear I may have died in a landslide of rocks and hopes and fears Oh, 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? Do I dive? The sea has seen my like before Though, it's my first and perhaps last time Let's call me a baptist Call this a drowning of the past She is there on the shoreline throwing stones at my back Oh, 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 I have is a body adrift in water, salt and sky Oh, 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?