Great Lake Swimmers - Great Lake Swimmers

The currents want to pull you down

The bottom is empty, invisible

Where is the shore

Oh I can’t see it anymore

Feeling so tired, have to keep floating

The bottom is so far away

The shore is so far away

The finish line is out of sight

I won’t give up without a fight

It’s such a long swim

The waves are coming at full force

And even though I thrash about

It only makes it worse

I only get more tired

Have I gotten out so far

I don’t know where the boat docks are

And the moon just laughs at me

A sickle in a cotton veil

Will I make it through this gale

It’s such a long swim

It’s such a long swim, it’s such a long swim

It’s such a long swim, it’s such a long swim

I was standing on a pier

Was it very far from here

Nothing but the water sounds

And if I had it in a glass

I could drink it down and laugh

I would laugh and drink it down

The water is so pure tonight

It brings you life yet makes you drown

The fish must be laughing

I have seen the boats of steel

I have used a fishing reel

I am bobbing like a cork

In this never-ending dark

I am soaked from toe to chin

I will not let the water in

Is there any use at all

To fight against this heavy tide

Will it take me in its stride

It’s such a long swim

It’s such a long swim, it’s such a long swim

I was sitting in the sand

Waves were tumbling with the wind

They pulled him out

They pulled him in

The stretcher brought him back again

The sirens let the swimmers know

Not to wrestle undertoes

It’s such a long swim

And now there is no sign of land

The breakers are behind me now

Splashing in a hopeless flow

Far above the muddy sand

Will I dry off on the rocks

Will I ever see the docks

The beacons must have all burnt out

I am flooded with this doubt

It’s such a long swim

It’s such a long swim, it’s such a long swim

It’s such a long swim, it’s such a long swim

It’s such a long swim, it’s such a long swim

It’s such a long swim, it’s such a long swim