The Crawler

	  		
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Andrea and me, we went swimming last Monday 
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Swimming last Monday in a community pool 
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I refused to remove my suit in the shower 
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Scared that someone might see the scars on my soul 
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That this autumn left on me 


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A community swimming pool, it's like a society 
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Twenty people swimming in a line, making room for everyone 
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We work hard to get along 


Bridge 
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And then he comes along, the crawler 
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He doesn't see anyone else, the crawler 
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He jumps in in the middle lane and waves his crawling arms 

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Visibly damaging the swimming quality for everyone else 
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The crawler believes because he knows crawling 
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He gets to crawl over everyone else 
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"People who breaststroke and can't keep up 
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They should start crawling themselves" 
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So says the crawler
 

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Andrea and me, we swam after each other 
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After each other in the community pool 
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I'm not good at talking while exercising 
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If you say something funny, Andrea, I'll drown 
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My arms in the water get number and number 
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For every second here I grow stronger 
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We're in a line, twenty people, we try to get along 
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I love how we get along 

Bridge 
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But the crawler keeps crawling, forcing the water 
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Building forts of waves that hit our faces 
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Us twenty, we gather around the crawler 
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We push his face under water 
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And we wait 
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We wait for the waves to slow down x6