Languishing Lyrics

Your head's above water

But your legs are gonna run out of speed

You're gasping for air

But you've convinced yourself that's just how you breathe

And you're smooth on the surface

But your body's breaking down underneath

You're languishing

Not yet dead

Not fully alive

Somewhere in the middle of the turf and the tide

Dragging not drowning

Afloat but not free

Too proud to shout an SOS to the beach

Languishing

In between

Stuck in the wake of wasted potential

Telling yourself it's not too torrential

Let me be

What you need

Darling you weren't made just to survive

Let me help you feel alive

Thrive with me

The shore is in your vision

But you're drifting in a prison at sea

The effort's an eleven

But your sense of heaven's down at a three

And the wading's suffocating

But your lungs and your heart disagree

You're languishing

Caught in a current of cans and coulds

Swirling in a cyclone of shoulds and woulds

Dragging not drowning

Afloat but not free

Too proud to shout an SOS to the beach

Languishing

In between

Stuck in the wake of wasted potential

Telling yourself it's not too torrential

Let me be

What you need

Darling you weren't made just to survive

Let me help you feel

Alive

I wanna give you wind in your hair

And salt on your tongue

The breeze on your back

The kiss of the sun

And all those songs you left unsung

I'm still singing

You're not too far

It's not too late

Don't you know I can hold your weight

Stop your striving

Stop surviving

I'm inviting

You

To thrive with me

Your feet have stopped kicking

And it's clicking that you don't need a boat

Just lay your head back

See how light it all feels when you float