Citizen Fish Sink Or Swim Lyrics

Let's go down to the beaches
and run from the edge of the sea.
See what the movement teaches,
a frail sense of autonomy.
Cold toes in the water,
two steps from freezing feet.
Feel the strength as you go in deeper,
and the cold consistency.
And if there's anyone watching,
you dare not turn around
until your arms are doing the clutching
as your feet leave the ground.
Control or capitulation?
A new sense of affinity,
having lost all hesitation.
Back there it was just the sea.

Just a blue mass on the postcard.
Just a place to race the boats.
Just a waveline on the blackboard.
Now see how long the illusions float.
With risk co-ordination,
swim half way as far as you can.
We lose control of the situation
when we think we've got it all pre-planned.

Back in the dead-air building blocks,
we loose the urge to take a risk.

And in these concrete houses we dry out in the heat,
and invent the worst excuses to stay there permanently.
Too many regulations.
Too many rituals.
The biggest risk was taken
deep-ending in the swimming pool.
The structured sand and water
reflects our structured lives.
We swim,
but never further
than the constraints of our minds.
Let's get back to the beaches:
wider than a postcard.
And run straight into the sea:
longer than a holiday.
That's what the movement teaches.
Sink or swim:
spontaneity.

See what citizen can be,
if we recall the deep blue sea
that evolved our weary brains,
getting shrunk from too much stress.

We either get back into swimming
or we sink into a mess!