Swim Until You Can't See Land

I salute at the threshold of the North Sea, and my mind And I nod to the boredom that drove me here to face the tide And swim, I swim, oh swim Dip a toe in the ocean, oh how it hardens, and it numbs The rest of me is a version of man built to collapse in 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 So I 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 a wave, do a dive You see I see my life and for 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 So I 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 alone All I have is a body adrift in water, salt, and sky So I 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 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 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