The Crawler

Written by：Annika Norlin/Christian Gabel

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 number and number

For every

Second here I grow stronger

We're in a 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

And we wait

And we wait for the waves to slow down