The Crawler

Andrea and me we went swimming last Monday
Swimming last Monday in a community pool
I refused to remove my suit in the shower
Scared that someone might see the scars on my soul
That this autumn left on me
A community swimming pool it's like a society
Twenty people swimming in a line
Making room for everyone
We work hard to get along
Then he comes along, the crawler
He doesn't see anyone else, the crawler
He jumps in the middle lane
And waves his crawling arms
Visibly damaging the swimming quality
For everyone else
The crawler believes because he knows crawling
He gets to crawl over everyone else
People who breaststroke and can't keep up
They should start crawling themselves
So says the crawler
Andrea and me we swam after each other
After each other in the community pool
I'm not good at talking while exercising
If you say something funny Andrea I'll drown
My arms in the water get numbier and numbier
For every second here I grow stronger
One line twenty people we try to get along
I love how we get along
But the crawler keeps crawling
Forcing the water
Building forts of waves that hit our faces
Us twenty we gather around the crawler
We push his face under water
And we wait
We wait for the waves to slow down
We wait for the waves to slow down
We wait for the waves to slow down
We wait for the waves to slow down
We wait for the waves to slow down
How we wait how we wait for the waves to slow down