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The Undertow
Mostly Autumn
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We built a castle in the sand
And drew our names into the side
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And when the sea came up we ran
And saw it melt into the tide
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Let it go
Stop swimming against the flow
The undertow is pulling
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There's nothing holding back the changes
And the years have come and gone
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They say there's light around the edges
When the shadows take the sun
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Let it go
Stop swimming against the flow
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The undertow is pulling
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The lightning flickers through the gloom
The bloodied hands, the crowded room
The quickening, the ocean bloom alights
I kick and punch but nothing lands
I'm tearing at the second hand
But time accelerates and bounds away
And all we choose to undertake
And all that's true and all that's fake
And all the days, the life we make
And all we stacked against our fate
And all that's left of life to live
And everything we ever did
The song we sang when we were kids
I'm still singing it
Let it go
Stop swimming against the flow
The undertow is pulling
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Deep somewhere a clock's a-ticking away
Rumble shake the ground a-ripple and sway
Is this thing speeding up? I'm showing my age
Oh, get me off
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Take these instruments, they're just in the way, oh, oh, oh
Take these words away, they're slowing me down
The days grow dim, my light's a-flickering out
I'm burning low
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Ambition set the bar too high and I'm flying under
Needle on the dial a-pinning the red
Tail wind pulls you into riding the undertow instead
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