She was naked

She was waiting by the seaside

She was crying

She was filling up the ocean for me

Because she knows I can't swim

All the wailing and the sobbing on the hour

C'mon darling

C'mon c'mon c'mon

You know you know I can't swim

I need air

Just some oxygen, I think it's only fair

A reprieve, a pardon, please

I've read my sentence and it seems a tad extreme

The tears kept raining all night

With a warm, salty sting

The coastline stretches for days

Now it's all I see

I play the fool, I play dumb

I kept the flow of denials

Can't believe I let my excuses up to no fire

Each one a dead albatross and a one-way ticket to Devil's Isle

It's five fourteen in the morning

It's bad, bad, bad as you go

I plead with the sun to called on the dawn:

Where you hiding?

Where you hiding?

She was golden and devoted to the shoreline

She was young, beautiful and her skin was on fire

And she knows I can't swim

I never learned

So I'm not sure what songs the sirens use to lure

A wayward lad whose legs need land

I've been convicted and most certainly condemned

To drift each nautical mile

Under a blistering heat

Is this heaven or hell?

Or in between?

I play the fool,I play dumb

I kept the flow of denials

Can't believe I let my excuses up to no fire

Each one a dead albatross and a one-way ticket to Devil's Isle

It's five fourteen in the morning

It's bad, bad, bad as you go

I played with the sun to called on the dawn:

Where you hiding?

Where you hiding?

Don't take my heart

Cuz it's a worthless little stone

And without it I would float

All my days and nights

I'd rather sink to the floor than continue with this pyre

So don't take my heart

Cuz it's a worthless little stone

And without it I would float

All my days and nights