I'm swimming all the time I'm swimming for my life And all I do is swim I'm swimming for my life You can swim she said You can swim she said More and more of less and less The charm of no success It's nowhere to be seen It's someone else's dream Words too short to speak Words I meant to keep I don't understand I don't understand Words too short to speak Words I meant to keep I never understood Just how she thought I could Me and my future wife Above a plain of knives You can swim she said You can swim she said I'm swimming all the time I'm swimming for my life And on some dreary day I'll swim my life away Words too short to speak Words I meant to keep I don't understand I don't understand Words too short to speak Words I meant to keep Don't know what to be you're confusing me