Lyrics: Take a swim in the water Take a swim in the water Dear Arkansas daughter You with the dark curls, you with the watercolor eyes You who bears all your teeth in every smile He says, "I can always hear you sing, I wanna hear you speak to me" While a stranger braids my hair back out on the street And in your dreams, we are shooting at snakes And while you were asleep, I was surely awake I was talking at a cigarette With nothing left to say But he should have been there anyway For I didn't sing a single song, all day As my love for you dies As my love for you dies As my love for you is steadily dying As sharp and serious as a pistol in the eye My heart is full of swords Full of, full of swords Your love, it knows the Lord Tie my hands and I knock my knees as I kneel down, I kneel down in the sea To the ocean floor, I will sink like A steel chest full of weapons And on the spine of the tide, you will rise like A red ripe, red ripe apple Take a swim in the dirty water Dear Arkansas Daughter Take a swim in the dirty water Darling child, true love of mine As my love for you dies As my love for you dies As my love for you is steadily dying Darling, child, true love of mine Darling child, true love of mine True love of mine True love of mine
Me: not even American and never been to America and not even from an English speaking country Also me with the dark curls and watercolor eyes: taking a swim in the dirty water
