Future Islands Ancient Water song lyrics

Ancient like the water

Dissolves my selfish leanings and all the others

Guide me

You beside me

With conviction—my lost invention

My child is starving

But you keep me, you keep me

I've been locked and you're the key

You keep me, you keep me

You keep me 'til I'm ready to be free

Too many wasted days and nights

Obsessed with the flickering bits of my life

Forgetting what giving and living can be—what it can mean

First forgiving myself and stepping outside of my own apathy

To see, I just want to be

Patient like the forest

Stood through thousands fallen

Watched the changing evening a million times or more

Lead me to the water

Take me to the other side

And know how much it means, to me

Cuz you keep me, you keep me

I've been locked and you're the key

Too many wasted days and nights

Obsessed with the flickering bits of my life

I've forgotten what giving and living can be—what it can mean

First steps to being better is doing the smallest things

Cuz you keep me, you keep me

You keep me I've been locked and you're the key

You keep me, you keep me

You keep me 'til I'm strong enough to see

To be free