The Undertow

We built a castle in the sand
And drew our names into the side
And when the sea came up we ran
And saw it melt into the tide

Let it go
Stop swimming against the flow
The undertow is pulling

There's nothing holding back the changes
And the years have come and gone
They say there's light around the edges
When the shadows take the sun

Let it go
Stop swimming against the flow
The undertow is pulling

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

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

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

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