Beneath the Ocean

If you're drowning in an ocean,

And there’s no land in sight,

How long do you keep swimming,

Before your arms give out?

Before you've swallowed too much water,

Trying to catch your breath?

Before you pray one last time,

And accept your coming death?

Before your head goes under?

Beneath the waves and beneath the world,

Beneath the place I once called home.

So how long do you keep swimming,

When all your muscles burn?

And when can you give up,

If there is no lasting hope?

When can my body finally rest,

Down on the ocean floor?

Below the noise and below the pain,

Below all sun and below all rain,

Below the world that I've betrayed,

Below all hope that I could stay.

Someone send me a sign,

That land is not far now,

That I just have to swim,

A little longer now.