Future Islands - Ancient Water 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 bit's 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 bit's 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