The Water

I had to take this one out to the water
I had to write in the cold on the beach
I used to laugh at the places it brought us
But heaven knows far be it from me to preach
Heaven knows far be it from me to take any longer if stronger's all that I need
I would be dead if I waded in water but it's still a longer route when I leave
Uhh

I saw the hate in their eyes when it happened
Most of what I ate I gave back in the bathroom
After I heard that I just wasn't for it
Guess I got away and then kept moving forward
Guess I needed space cause I just couldn't listen
I just roll spliffs in the whip and then floor it
I just roll spliffs in the whip and then crash it
Prolly got lit then I wouldn't have lasted
Just hit the florist I want for my casket
Told him no roses, I'm into hydrangea
Views of the summer the ones that I came from
Colors that hold all the moments that made you
The way it come back, oh, well that still amaze me
A couple years back they were calling me crazy
A couple years back I could never forget it
I still couldn't tell you just where I was headed
Then all I could hear was the sound of the water
I fought over shit that I never expected
This is the sound and they had to respect it
Get in it now and be glad you invested
Swim or you drown I just never could falter
Pray at the altar of sadder intentions
Carry on your wayward, son
Carry your head high and know that I'm proud of you
Don't waste a second debating the sun
These are the waves you just stay low and power through
These aren't the rates you could pay for the hour, dude
Lately I stay up to chase it no Adderall
This just what they want to pay for a sadder tune
God knows the danger was gracing the catalogue
Uhh
I wasn't mad at all
I could have taken a badder fall
I just wish you were thinking, I wish you would listen
If you really had to call
Uhh
If that's how it had to be, then
I couldn't get that involved, I
Was stuck on the vision
I just wasn't missing
I just had to last the haul

I had to take this one out to the water
I had to write in the cold on the beach
I used to laugh at the places it brought us
But heaven knows far be it from me to preach
Heaven knows far be it from me to take any longer, if stronger's all that I need
I would be dead if I waded in water, but it's still a longer route when I leave
Uhh

I used to smile, my tongue in my cheek
They thought I was tired and hung up my cleats
Thought I was lying, they just wouldn't listen
They used to tell me they'd done it for me
This is what I would have done in defeat
I used to give 'em the cunning at least
This is the song that they sung to a misfit
This is how they all get brung to their feet
I used to think of the sun and the beach
This is what I would have done to the beat
Donny's been known to just cut it up different
Turn of the tides and they're running from me
But there was no taking it back for me
There was a time she would lay with me afterwards
Book the hotel, give me head on the balcony
This time around just a mouth for the sadder words
That candle was sandalwood, she wasn't mad at me
Everything is just the way that it had to be
She had a heart that was built for catastrophe
I couldn't think about running out after you
Wasn't for nothing, I did what I had to do
You always did what you did for the pageantry
I fell in love with a bitch that was bad for me
Fell way off I'll never forget it
The burden to me wasn't hurt when I said it
I'm turning the page like eternities later
I turn up with shades and a burgundy blazer
Yeah
I just wouldn't worry about it
We buried it then and absurdity sprouted
She's tearing it off as a courtesy to me
I'm airing it out, I'm not working around it
Yeah
I'm airing 'em out, I'm not working around it

I had to take this one out to the water
I had to write in the cold on the beach
I used to laugh at the places it brought us
But heaven knows far be it from me to preach
Heaven knows far be it from me to take any longer, if stronger's all that I need
I would be dead if I waded in water, but it's still a longer route when I leave
Uhh

I saw the hate in their eyes when it happened
Most of what I ate I gave back in the bathroom
After I heard that I just wasn't for it
Guess I got away and then kept moving forward
Guess I needed space cause I just couldn't listen
I just roll spliffs in the whip and then floor it
I just roll spliffs in the whip and then crash it
Prolly got lit then I wouldn't have lasted
Just hit the florist I want for my casket
Told him no roses, I'm into hydrangea
Views of the summer the ones that I came from
Colors that hold all the moments that made you