Gone Swimming Down by the Riverside, well there's a place for me Where I won't sit and think about where I'd rather be And I don't need nothing But the look on my face It's all bullshit It's just the time it takes between Where it comes and where it ..., yeah You can go swimming, no sign of rainstorms or Thunder and I won't be joining you Because today between the time it's taking Me to wonder, I just might get sucked under Down by the ocean, it's all behind me, it's just an open sea, And I can really see for miles, yeah I wish I knew just what I was looking for A pool of endless rhymes, I ain't talking 'bout the water We're talking time, where it comes and where it ..., yeah You can go swimming, there's been no warning of hurricane Or tidal wave, ain't no dangerous fish out there I won't be joining you still It's just a feeling in me, gettin' washed out to the sea Yeah to sea I wish I could go 'cause you know That the water doesn't usually frighten me so It's not the depth of the sea that infatuates me To remains to be seen, like the time in between Where it comes and where it goes Where it goes Down in a creekbed in my old neighbourhood There is a trickle that's dirty and warm And I have spend many a childhood hour there It's where I used to play, seems like yesterday But I was younger then, just make believing Making wishes and tossing pennies in And now I've grown, haven't changed my tone, Just getting stoned and ain't pretending that I know You can go swimming though it's only a trickle there And the floodgates haven't worked for years I won't be joining you, no, I wish I could go But I And I You can go swimming You can go swimming