Lyrics

[Good, I like this place
This place makes me realize how sick of rock clubs
Those places with all the big giant PA systems ???
This is more my speed
Dance floor
This is actually the kind of place that I figure we belong together
Dance floor, you got people sitting around and stuff if they want
You know
You can talk
No, it's a place for entertainment
Not for people beating each other over the head
I like it
So that's how I'm doing]

Tell you what?
Why don't we do a song
That will scare you?
And we'll just take it

Well
When I was down by the stream
And discovered I couldn't swim
When I was a little kid
I couldn't swim so good
I don't know why I was afraid of the water
I'd say it's time I overcame that
But I can't claim I have
I'm a grown man

Who can barely swim
I can get in the water
Jamie, Jamie is one of our vocalists
She's helped me
In fact, so has Ellie
In fact, now that I think of it, so has Michael
Understand ???
???
New modern lover

You ??? try and swim too?
No
Michael, he's the drummer in this band
He said
Jonathan, you're so cute in the water
That wasn't called for
It means I looked like I was about
You know, like little dog who paddles

???
No I want just a little atmosphere in the room

Yeah, swimming

I'm still not so good
But we went back down the creek
???
A river actually
Running fast
I'm not good at fighting the current
I choke you know
I panic, that's my problem
I can do it good when I actually can do it
I'm not bad

Swimming

If I didn't panic
That's my problem
Now you're gonna
You'll probably say
??? Be a calm ???
That will be ???

(Where did the fear come from?)

I don't know

Try it again
??? One more time

(Where did the fear come from?)

I had it when I was five years old
I had it there
I remember we went to Cape Cod
In Boston area
??? Hotel, summer place
Ask me one more time

(Where did the fear come from?)

I noticed it there when I was four or five
I
When I was three
???
So you might want to ask me

(Where did the fear come from?)

???
Much stuff like that
I think in fact, I never saw my Mother sweat
Now that you mention it

We would go to the beach and stuff like that
My Mother was scared of a lot of different things

Let's play ??? instruments for a while

Give you a break from my voice

???
???

I don't like cold ???
I can sleep in the cold great
I don't walk around ???
With Italian t shirt
I wear cotton
But wet
Like soggy wet weather
I warned you

I don't know what it is

(Where did the fear come from?)

I don't know what it is

(Where did the fear come from?)

I've got to get rid of it though
I'm not too old to get rid of this
I'm not sad when I sing this song

It puzzles me
I'm gonna
I know I've become
I'm better now than I was
??? Remember ???
Yeah, I know I'm not good
It's the look as ???
That panicked look

Is I know how to breathe
That's what it is
Breathing
I've read ??? talk about it too
Breathing
Ok
So we'll talk about something else for a while
That's enough of this song for a while

Maybe we'll come back to it

Notes

• he speaks the lines - the backup singers sing the occasional 'where did the fear come from?'