The Undertow

We built a castle in the sand And drew our names into the side And when the sea came up we ran And saw it melt into the tide Let it go Stop swimming against the flow The undertow is pulling There's nothing holding back the changes And the years have come and gone They say there's light around the edges When the shadows take the sun Let it go Stop swimming against the flow The undertow is pulling The lightning flickers through the gloom The bloodied hands, the crowded room The quickening, the ocean bloom alights I kick and punch but nothing lands I'm tearing at the second hand But time accelerates and bounds away And all we choose to undertake And all that's true and all that's fake And all the days, the life we make And all we stacked against our fate And all that's left of life to live And everything we ever did The song we sang when we were kids I'm still singing it Let it go Stop swimming against the flow The undertow is pulling Deep somewhere a clock's a-ticking away Rumble shake the ground a-ripple and sway Is this thing speeding up? I'm showing my age Oh, get me off Take these instruments, they're just in the way, oh, oh, oh Take these words away, they're slowing me down The days grow dim, my light's a-flickering out I'm burning low Ambition set the bar too high and I'm flying under Needle on the dial a-pinning the red Tail wind pulls you into riding the undertow instead