Matt on the 18 of December 2017 posted on Instagram that this song “may be my finest accomplishment. Lyrically, musically, there is something about it that is inexplicable to me. I hear my voice, listen to how the piano and the guitar meet and fall away, but have no memory of creating those moments....
Insane I wake up
The oars I take up and row to right
A dawnless widow
A Portsmouth ghost of East End slight
For you I hold this
To build from nothing an Ancient Light
And so in motions of all distortions
I pull for my life
This cold water is weighing us down
Oh how I wish I was with you and nowhere else
Late this morning
I came by Hampstead in a Devon scow
That found me drifting just off of Rame Head
Near Plymouth Sound
In the room that we let
I found your hairbrush broke on the ground
And so in motion, like stone in potion
I just laid down
Cold Water was written by Matthew Good.
Cold Water was produced by Warne Livesey.
Matthew Good released Cold Water on Fri Sep 25 2015.