Citizen Fish-Sink or Swim

Citizen Fish-Sink or Swim
Lyrics:

Let's go down to the beaches
And run from the edge of the sea
See what the movement teaches
A frail sense of autonomy

Cold toes in the water
Two steps from freezing feet
Feel the strength as you go in deeper
And the cold consistency
And if there's anyone watching
You dare not turn around
Till your arms are doing the clutching
As your feet leave the ground
Control or capitulation
A new sense of affinity
Having lost all the hesitation
But back there it was just the sea

Just a blue mass on the postcards
Just a place to race the boats
Just a waveline on the blackboard
And now see how long the illusion float
With risk co-ordination
Swim half as far as you can
We lose control of the situation
When we think we've got it all pre-planned

Back in dead-air building blocks
We lose the urge to take a risk
And calmly change our sandy socks
Wishing there was more that this
Stuck in these concrete houses
We dry out in the heat
Invent the worst excuses
To stay there permanently

Too many regulations
Too many rituals
The biggest risk was taken
Deep-ending in the swimming pool
The structured sand and water
Reflects our structures lives
We swim but never further
Than the constraints of our minds

Let's get back to the beaches
Wider than a postcard
And run straight into the sea
Longer than a holiday

That's what the movement teaches
Sink or swim spontaneity

You'll see what citizen can be
If we recall the deep blue sea
That evolved our weary brains
Getting shrunk from too much stress
We either get back into swimming
Or we sink into a mess!

Category:

Music

Tags:

• Citizen
• Fish
• Sink
• or
• Swim
• Ska
• Punk

[deathhhhhhh0]

Somebody needs to post "Money" from the deadline split with LOC, and "Internal Release" from life size... But god dammit I'm too lazy so I want someone else to do it for me.

[userman93]

@deathhhhhhh0 well i could do that...but i am really lazy man gotta search for that album in the next days

[rndriven]

Thanks all. Does anyone know how to post TV dinner to youtube? Please, someone, do it. It's another great Citizen Fish song.

[userman93]

@rndriven I would do that, but i don`t have the album "Flinch" so I can`t and I don`t find this album online...:(

[Emzie19]

Early citizen fish fukken rules

[userman93]

oh yes

[Ohiogrown90]

Thank you sooooo much... this song is amazing i used to be a huge subhumans/citizen fish fan, an this was always the song that reminded me of citizen....repeating my self yet again but thank you...

[SauceAggressors]

Warzone Fest This Saturday!

[ganjapocalypse]

Don't you wish music was still this good?

[deathnote62]

lol love they have always a fish on their cds, like the cows of the dead milkmen

[804safety]

seen them live in the 90s,still love them...from subhumans to citizen fish,ausome..cheers from canada

[Ramzavail]

oh man, I haven't heard this song in ages. Loved this song.

[Punxundead1]

Moshed to this song last night :) Lead singers chill as fuck haha but there was a fight befor they went on, oh welll.

[bobbyndelylia]

saw them on thurs 5/12 dick lucas is a lyrical genius. Jasper and Matt awesome; I got to talk with 'em for like an hour or so before the show w/ my chick.The bass is killer. actually every person in this band is amazing. SO FUCKING FUN.

love habit, invisible people, active ingredients, traffic lights...i could go on

[jamesholt80]

i just saw subhumans the 10th of april with mdc it was fuckin awesome!!!! dick lucas is awesome period!!!!

[jamesholt80]

i just saw subhumans the 10th of april with mdc it was fuckin awesome!!!! dick lucas is awesome period!!!!