Undertow

When blood’s thicker than water

It’s hard to stay afloat

Those heavy waves are broader

When there is no lifeboat

Betrayal is far wetter

Those waters clear as mud

Distain flows so much better

‘Cause it’s thicker than blood

I paddled and I backstroked

Against a mighty current

Suspended in those rivers deep

By one major deterrent

I knew I shouldn’t hold my breath

Or wait around for them

While wading in a pool of death

I’d do my best to swim

Condensing and distilling

It’s difficult to breathe

While my lungs were filling

They chose that time to leave

The depths would soon deprave me

That anchor brought me down

I knew no one would save me

Or even watch me drown

I floundered through my troubles

Past all I had been taught

The deep end filled with bubbles

And that’s when I got caught

What lies beneath gets hungry

With actions justified

And famished whirlpools wrung me

Out on the other side

Breaking points lack mercy

The seas won’t dispel thirst

I’m not the one who started this

That water hit me first

There’s two coins left to barter

To add to my well wishes

I’m waving at the shoreline

And sleeping with the fishes