“Coldest Water” is the second single off of Colours. A fragment of the track first surfaced on the facebook page of Walking on Cars Novermber 29, 2016. In the video, before singing the fragment, the band announces the songs as follows:
Hey everybody. We’re here in Norwich and we got bored so we did...
[Verse 1]
I was looking for a friend
And it all came to an end
But I survived, yeah, I survived
Oh you came across the sea
Swam the ocean just for me
Now I'm alive, yeah, I'm alive
[Pre-Chorus]
What we do, it’s a game that you can’t play
And we’re losing it every time
If it lasts then we could be in heaven
But it stops and it leaves us to dry
[Chorus]
But here I go again, back the way I came
Into the coldest, into the coldest water
Here I go again, no one else to blame
Into the coldest, into the coldest water
Oh-oh-oh-oh
Into the coldest water
Oh-oh-oh-oh, oh-oh-oh-oh
[Verse 2]
Yeah, I was talking to a friend
About what happens in the end and realized, we realized
That one day we would be the ground
And all the colours we are now
Would fade in time, they fade in time
[Pre-Chorus]
What we do, it’s a game that you can’t play
And we’re losing it every time
If it lasts then we could be in heaven
But it stops and it leaves us to dry
[Chorus]
But here I go again, back the way I came
Into the coldest, into the coldest water
Here I go again, no one else to blame
Into the coldest, into the coldest water
Oh-oh-oh-oh
Into the coldest water
Oh-oh-oh-oh
Into the coldest water
[Bridge]
Yeah, I used to be like that
No, it's not a long way back
Oh-oh-oh-oh
Ooh, yeah, I used to be like that
No, it's not a long way back
You should have seen how they found me
[Chorus]
Here I go again, back the way I came
Into the coldest, into the coldest water
Here I go again, no one else to blame
Into the coldest, into the coldest water
[Outro]
Yeah, I used to be like that
No, it's not a long way back (Into the coldest water)
(Oh-oh-oh-oh, oh-oh-oh-oh)
Yeah, I used to be like that
No, it's not a long way back (Into the coldest water)
Coldest Water was written by Paul Flannery & Evan Hadnett & Sorcha Durham & Dan Devane & Pa Sheehy.
Coldest Water was produced by MyRiot.
Walking On Cars released Coldest Water on Fri Feb 08 2019.
Patrick Sheehy shared via the band’s social media the origins of the song:
This song was written after I accepted that I was gonna have to stay sober if I wanted to have some kind of life. Knowing and doing don’t always go hand in hand so this song captures a few years where I was dragged back and...