Water Baby - Tom Misch, Loyle Carner

'Cause I was born a water baby

Swimming with these times

The grooves that turn the grey to sunshine

'Cause I will live through days that break me

Swimming with these times

The grooves that turn the grey to sunshine

I’m still tryna write the story as I see it

The trouble is when I say it, they don’t believe it

They reckon I only say it but I don’t mean it

I’m tryna tell 'em I’d only say it if I can feel it

'Cause money’s tight, maybe tighter than it was before

I’m helping out on a mortgage I really can’t afford

Family breaking north, I cover the trips abroad

Shakin', I’m making another loss on another tour

But what I done it for?

To see my mother in the sun abroad

I run into trouble, that was coming for her

My little brother got the hunger for

All the exact same pain

That makes the rain in my stomach pour

So let me paint it broader

This for any dude who’s got a daughter

Living off lines that your papa taught her

Ain’t got no time to be coming for you

Go with the flow of this running water

Go with the flow of this

Go with the flow of this

Go with the flow of this

Don’t you worry

Two leaves won’t grow the same

And people might forget your name

Doesn’t matter if they do

Don’t you hurry

When the hot coffee pours will stain

And when the Uber left you in the rain

Your time will come around to you

Despite the stress of spending so much time alone

'Cause this ge-o-gra-phy is keeping me at home

And I don’t know the way to go

I move with the flow of this running water, this running water

'Cause I was born a water baby

Swimming with these times

The grooves that turn the grey to sunshine

'Cause I will live through days that break me

Swimming with these times

The grooves that turn the grey to sunshine

Go with the flow of this running water