Undertow lyrics

IntroThe surface looked still, so I trusted the calm

Verse 1You said the water was shallow, I believed in your eyes
Walked in up to the shoulder, never read the tide
There's a pull underneath that the daylight won't show
A polite kind of drowning, slow and below

ChorusIt's the undertow
the part of you the surface never shows
takes me quiet, takes me whole
I don't fight it anymore, I just go
under the undertow

Verse 2The same hand that you waved with is the hand that let go
The same shore that I aimed for kept moving below
What looked like an ending was a current instead
A long horizontal falling, eyes open, unsaid

ChorusIt's the undertow
the part of you the surface never shows
takes me quiet, takes me whole
I don't fight it anymore, I just go
under the undertow

BridgeNo splash, no scream, no one on the sand
Just the soft mathematics of losing the land
What pulls me down isn't cruel, it's just true
The undertow was always the realest part of you

OutroThe surface looked still
and I trusted the calm