SkyBabyRecords: Music & Lyrics
Gravity Can't Swim
killing questions, dye your hair ash blond.
feed the kettle, turn it on.
leave the make-up ideas on the floor.
sip illusions – could it be true love?
does life taste rich enough?
or does a sickly aftertaste linger
in your heart?
he rebuilt the staging
too many times to mention,
keep him intravenous for now.
under the waves there must be
a senseless, stupid, complication.
we walk the beach until we’re warm.
under the waves there must be
a love that we can both depend on,
but the tide chases the storm,
and it’s too strong.
gravity…
stroke your eyelids free from his shadow,
close them tightly, don’t lie low.
give the streetlight a cuddle, it can’t fade.
drifting under your life support with sound,
hear it, keep it, take it down.
through the surface feel us become new.
you shiver, get higher,
don’t be so cruel to you,
wake up – change the love in your life.
under the waves there must be
a senseless, stupid, complication.
we walk the beach until we’re warm.
under the waves there must be
a love that we can both depend on,
but the tide chases the storm,
and it’s too strong.
gravity can’t swim.
gravity pull love out of view.
gravity holds me back from you.
gravity is killing me,
and i can’t see the shore at all,
gravity, why won’t you swim
and be beside her?
it’s taking me,
and drowning me deep inside her world.
© Words and music by Paul Terry. All rights reserved. Lyrics reproduced by kind permission.