Singing Underwater

I ain’t no jukebox hero I didn’t write Wonderwall

And I don’t play the guitar or sing that well at all

My songs are for the campfire on summer river nights

But every now and then I think let’s play an open mic

I get do sam nervous they call it the stage fright

It’s like fear and loathing but without the Vegas lights

Before I even start playing the sweat begins to pour

I can’t ever catch my breath what I am I doing this for

‘Cause it’s like singing underwater while someone holds you down

You struggle up to catch a breath but you get pulled right back down

It’s like a wave of inexplicable existential dread

It’s like those nights as a kid and monsters under your bed

It’s like that first girl or boy who you really liked

Rehearsed the words a hundred times but it would never come out right

An open mic’s a clinical anxiety attack

You meditate and get in your space but you just can’t knock it back

It’s like singing underwater while someone holds you down

You struggle up to catch a breath but you get pulled right back down

It’s like singing underwater while someone holds you down

You struggle up to catch a breath but you get pulled right back down

I’ve tried to imagine the audience in their underwear

And once I acted like there wasn’t anybody there

That one didn’t work out well as I found out rather quick

I won’t be going back to that bar ‘cause that’s the end of it

And though nothing’s ever worked including weed booze pills and more

Here I am once again sweating through every pore

Every time I finish playing one I say that’s it no more

But it only takes a month or two then I come back through that door

‘Cause it’s like singing underwater while someone holds you down

You struggle up to catch a breath but you get pulled right back down

It’s like a wave of inexplicable existential dread

It’s like those nights as a kid and monsters under your bed

It’s like that first girl or boy who you really liked

Rehearsed the words a hundred times but it would never come out right

An open mic’s a clinical anxiety attack

You meditate and get in your space but you just can’t knock it back

It’s like singing underwater while someone holds you down

You struggle up to catch a breath but you get pulled right back down

It’s like singing underwater while someone holds you down

You struggle up to catch a breath but you get pulled right back down

It’s like singing underwater while someone holds you down

You struggle up to catch a breath but you get pulled right back down