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Artist: Nick Kingswell
Canonical path: /nick-kingswell/swim
Related lyric paths: 4
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Swim
Read Swim lyrics by Nick Kingswell on LyroVerse, with linked artist context and related song paths.
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Swim
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Keep watch
With eyes that scan the sea
Shore lost
Drifting like a leaf
Hope dashed
Right before my eyes
Endless blue
Endless night
You've got to hurt before you heal
You’ve got to earn a heart of steel
You've got to float before you learn to swim
I was only trying not to sink
3 days
Not a breathe of wind
First rays
Setting on my skin
Landless
I’m in deeper than I think
Push me out
Or pull me in
I watch my guiding star
As it plunges to the dark
I wish I’d thrown my heavy heart
To break the water
Or break my fall
You've got to hurt before you heal
You’ve got to earn a heart of steel
You've got to float before you learn to swim
I was only trying not to
Laugh before I cry
You've got to live before you die
You've got to float before you learn to swim
I was only trying not to sink
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Nick Kingswell performs "Swim", and this lyric page sits inside the Nick Kingswell catalog on LyroVerse.
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