Tabbed by: Sam Rayner

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We salute at the threshold of the North Sea in my mind
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And the nautical board-man that drove me here to face the tide and
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Swim           I swim           I swim


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Dip the toe in the ocean. Oh how it hardens and it numbs
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And the rest of me is a burgeoned man built to collapse into crumbs
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And if I hadn't come down to the coast to disappear
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I may have died in a land-slide of the rocks, the hopes and fears.


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So swim until you can't see land       | 
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Swim until you can't see land          | 
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Swim until you can't see land          | 
    D                    C            
Are you a man, are you a bag of sand?  | 


G   D   Em   C   D   C  (X2)


G        D   Em    C     D          C
Up to my knees now, do I wait? Do I dive?
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The sea has seen my like before though it's my first and perhaps last time.
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Let's call me a baptist, call this the drowning of the past
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She's there on the shoreline throwing stones at my back


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So swim until you can't see land       | 
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Swim until you can't see land          | 
G                        C5 G          X2
Swim until you can't see land          | 
    D                    C            
Are you a man, are you a bag of sand?  | 


BRIDGE (X2)


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Now the water's taller than me and the land is a marker line
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All I am is a body adrift in water, salt and sky


   G                        C5 G
So swim until you can't see land       | 
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Swim until you can't see land          | 
G                        C5 G          X2
Swim until you can't see land          | 
    D                    C            
Are you a man, are you a bag of sand?  | 


    D                    C
Are you a man, are you a bag of sand?
    D                    C
Are you a man, are you a bag of sand?
    D                    C
Are you a man, are you a bag of sand?
    D                    C      G
Are you a man, are you a bag of sand?