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Car crash east side of town
The water's deep here you can feel your own strength fading
You’re beginning to let go
The bubbles rise as we go down
Underwater overwhelmed
Can’t fight the current here it’s starting to take hold
But high above me I can see the surface now
The picture perfect life is fading out of view
And high above me I can feel the world
But I don’t need it
I don’t need it
I don’t need it
I just need you
I just need you
Then you grow colder like a dream
I can’t believe the practical things
They’re always out of reach
And I know you’re not really here
These visions fly so quickly on the edge
They’re starting to take hold
But high above me I can see the surface now
The picture perfect life is fading out of view
And high above me I can feel the world
But I don’t need it
I don’t need it
I don’t need it
Won’t you help me with this loneliness
Cause I don’t know what’s wrong or right
Underneath the truth
Won’t you help me with this bitterness
Cause I can’t seem to walk outside
Car crash east side of town
The water's deep here I can feel my own strength fading
I'm beginning to let go
The bubbles rise as I go down
I hit the bottom overwhelmed
Can’t fight the current here it’s starting to take hold
But high above me I can see the surface now
The picture perfect life is fading out of view
And high above me I can feel the world
But I don’t need it
I don’t need it
I don’t need it
I don’t need it
I don’t need it
I don’t need it
I don’t need it
I don’t need it
I don’t need it
I just need you
I just need you
I just need you
I just need you
The water's deep here you can feel your own strength fading
You’re beginning to let go
The bubbles rise as we go down
Underwater overwhelmed
Can’t fight the current here it’s starting to take hold
The picture perfect life is fading out of view
And high above me I can feel the world
But I don’t need it
I don’t need it
I don’t need it
I just need you
I can’t believe the practical things
They’re always out of reach
And I know you’re not really here
These visions fly so quickly on the edge
They’re starting to take hold
The picture perfect life is fading out of view
And high above me I can feel the world
But I don’t need it
I don’t need it
I don’t need it
Cause I don’t know what’s wrong or right
Underneath the truth
Won’t you help me with this bitterness
Cause I can’t seem to walk outside
The water's deep here I can feel my own strength fading
I'm beginning to let go
The bubbles rise as I go down
I hit the bottom overwhelmed
Can’t fight the current here it’s starting to take hold
The picture perfect life is fading out of view
And high above me I can feel the world
But I don’t need it
I don’t need it
I don’t need it
I don’t need it
I don’t need it
I don’t need it
I don’t need it
I just need you
I just need you
I just need you
I just need you
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Okay i think the guy in the song was in a car crash and he's drowning. Then again the car crash and drowning could just be a metaphor for life getting you down. But I think he means it literally. So hes drowning but he doesn't care. Life is meaningless to him and he doesn't want it and he doesn't need it. All he needs is this one person. If he does live this person is the only reason why.
I think he's drowning in some auto accdent, maybe trapped in his seatbelt or somehow unable to move. Or he's not struggling to swim to the surface because the one and only he needs is unreachable. He lost his will to live. It seems to me that he doesn't need to suffer with the lonliness and he needs her so bad he just lets go. It sounds like he's fighting for life, but also kind of giving up too, mixed emotions, very ovewhelmed by the whole suffocating thing, but he's starting to realize as he slips away that he can't have his love so what's the point in living.