The Crawler - Hello Saferide

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 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

And then he comes along, the crawler

He doesn’t see anyone else, the crawler

He jumps in 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 for the waves to slow down