Nightswimming deserves a quiet night.
Photograph on a dashboard, taken years ago,
turned around back so the windshield shows every streetlight
reveals the picture in reverse
Still it's so much clearer.
I forgot my shorts at waterside
The moon is full tonight.
Nightswimming deserves a quiet night.
I'm not sure all these people understand
It's not not like years ago
The fear of getting cold, the wrecklessness in water,
they cannot see me naked. These things they go away
replaced by everyday. Nightswimming, remembering that night,
September's coming soon.. I'm pining for the moon, and what if there were two, side by side in orbit around the fairest sun.
???? could ot describe nightswimming.
You, I thought I knew you,
You, I can not judge,
You, I thought you knew me.
There's one laughing quietly
Underneath my breath
Nightswimming.
The photograph reflects every streetlight a reminder
Nightswimming deserves a quiet night,
Deserves a quiet night.