Treading Water - Breakage, Detour City

Don’t let go and slip down into the deep

I’ll hold you up but it’s harder and harder to see

Down here, where the light fades

The sound of our loving is swallowed inside, there’s nowhere to hide

Always live for love, you said

Never live for pain, you said

So why are we trapped in this slipstream of me?

We both can’t tread water

There’s more to this than can ever be the truth

Steel blue on my lips and the taste, the taste of you

Like ribbons round my neck, the tide tightens, the dark lightens

But I won’t leave, I won’t let go, you’re all I’ve ever known

You’re drowning in me

And you’re pulling me, pulling me down

The water is rising

Rising up in me

And I can’t look away

And I can’t breathe

It’s all disappearing, it’s all slowly sinking

And I just need to leave