[Verse 1] (clean guitar, bass, room) I love the water still How it finds the shape of me In the bright and shifting calm I will always drift to you Oh, let me float, oh, let me float [Verse 2] (cello enters, low organ hum) We are gentler past the shore When the current lifts me clean There’s a sweetness in that pull I would rather not come in Oh, let me float, oh, let me float [Chorus] (drums open, full bass, cello swells) Find me drifting with the tide Your gentlest wreck, your strangest guide Nothing anchored comes this near Your drifting man is here I want only to stay close Though half of me is made to go People hurt me worse than pain Still I’d wade into it again [Verse 3] (strip back — piano, bass, breath) Would you have me out this far In that room of thinning gold Past the place where voices carry Where the frightened finally slow In the sanctuary of the deep [Verse 4] (cello returns, building) I would rather lose my bearings Than command what I can’t hold Over hearts I’ll never read Over lives I’ll never know Oh, let me float, oh, let me float [Chorus] (full arrangement, drums heavier) Find me drifting with the tide Your gentlest wreck, your strangest guide Nothing anchored comes this near Your drifting man is here I want only to stay close Though half of me is made to go People hurt me worse than pain Still I’d wade into it again [Bridge] (falsetto over organ drone, stripped to voice and cello) If you call me I will come Through the salt and through the thin Barely breathing, barely gone Where you end is where I swim Keep me where the light burns low Keep me where the water’s slow [Final Chorus] (everything — drums crash in, organ full, cello layered, guitar distortion bleeds at edges) Find me drifting with the tide Your gentlest wreck, your strangest guide Nothing anchored comes this near Your drifting man is here I want only to stay close Though half of me is made to go People hurt me worse than pain Still I’d wade into it again (fade on organ and cello, bass note sustaining)
