Still Water (Let me stay under)

[Verse 1] Slipped in the pool at the end of August Water still warm from a sun that already left us Laid on my back, let my ears go under And the whole loud world turned into a murmur Just the filter humming, some crickets in the yard And me, floating, thinking this can't be hard This can't be the thing that people drown in When it feels like the only place I'm not drowning [Pre-Chorus] But I know what happens next The water gets cold, the skin gets thin And I'll climb out and stand there dripping And the quiet will end and the noise begins [Chorus] Let me stay under Let me stay under Where the sound is soft and the air is water Let me stay under Just a little longer Before I have to breathe again [Verse 2] Did this when I was twelve, same pool, same sky Sneaking out the back door, nobody asking why Back then it was adventure, now it's medicine Back then I was running to it, now I'm running from everything But the water doesn't care what brought me here It just holds me up like it did last year Like it did when I was small enough to stand Now I'm grown and I still need a place to land [Pre-Chorus] And I know what happens next My fingers will prune and I'll start to shiver And I'll pull myself out and stand there dripping And I'll miss the water the second I leave it [Chorus] Let me stay under Let me stay under Where the sound is soft and the air is water Let me stay under Just a little longer Before I have to breathe again [Bridge] My mother said don't swim alone But the house has been quiet for a while And the pool's the only thing that still feels like it knows me And I'm not alone — I've got the water And the water's got me And maybe that's enough Maybe that's enough [Chorus] Let me stay under Let me stay under Where the sound is soft and the air is water Let me stay under Just a little longer Before I have to breathe again [Outro] The water's still warm The water's still warm Don't make me come up yet Don't make me come up yet Still water Still water