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Water To Drink Not Write About
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Florence + the Machine

Swimming

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Track 4

3:22

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"Swimming" is a track by Florence + the Machine, from the album Water To Drink Not Write About. The track is 3:22 long. Full lyrics are available below. Dork has published 20 articles about Florence + the Machine.

About the Artist

Florence + the Machine

Florence + the Machine

Lyrics

Swimming

Your songs remind me of swimming
Which I forgot when I started to sink
Dragged further away from the shore
And deeper into the drink.
Sat on the bottom of the ocean
A stern and stubborn rock
'Cause your songs remind me of swimming
But somehow I forgot.
I was sinking and now I'm sunk
I was drinking and now I'm drunk
Your songs remind me of swimming
But somehow I forgot.
I tried to remember the chorus
I can't remember the verse
'Cause that song that sent me swimming
Is now the life jacket that burst.
Rotting like a wreck on the ocean floor
Sinking like a siren that can't swim anymore
'Cause your songs remind me of swimming
But I can't swim anymore.
Pull me out the water, cold and blue
I open my eyes and see that it's you
So I dive straight back in the ocean
So I dive straight back in the ocean.
Take a deep breath, suck the water in my chest
Take a deep breath, suck the water in my chest
Cross my fingers and hope for the best
Then all of a sudden, I heard a note
It started in my chest and ended in my throat
Then I realized, then I realized
Then I realized I was swimming
Yes I was swimming
And now I'm swimming
Yes I am swimming
Your songs remind me of swimming
Which I forgot when I started to sink
Your songs remind me of swimming
Which I forgot when I started to sink
Oh, your songs remind me of swimming
Which I forgot when I started
Your songs remind me of swimming
Which I forgot when I started
To sink

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Track details

From Water To Drink Not Write About

3:22

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Album

Water To Drink Not Write About

Florence + the Machine

Track number

4

1Never Let Me Go
4:31
2Ship To Wreck
3:54
3What The Water Gave Me
5:33
4Swimming
3:22
5Between Two Lungs
4:09
6Landscape (Demo)
4:02
7Make Up Your Mind
4:01
8Various Storms & Saints
4:09
9St Jude
3:45
10Sky Full Of Song
3:46
11The End Of Love
4:41

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