In the Water I Am Beautiful Lyrics

Lyric discussion by lrlz 

Cover art for In the Water I Am Beautiful lyrics by City and Colour

the title is from the introduction to "welcome to the monkey house" by kurt vonnegut jr: "i am six feet two and weigh nearly two hundred pounds and am badly coordinated, except when i swim. all that borrowed meat does the writing. in the water i am beautiful."

Actually, the song has nothing to do with that. But you are right about where he got the song name, not the song meaning.

Dallas (or other members of Alexisonfire) named this song based on another writing by Kurt Vonnegut

Susan had fallen asleep right after eating. Now she stirred. "What happened?" "Happiness," I told her. "Incomparable, continuous happiness –happiness by the kilowatt." Lew Harrison, who looked like an anarchist with his red eyes and fierce black beard, had been writing furiously in one corner of the room. "That's good–happiness by the kilowatt," he said. "Buy your happiness the way you buy light."

Happiness by the kilowatt, my all time favourite cover by...