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Song story — Keep Your Head Above Water HolworksIt starts on a porch that doesn’t know it’s going to matter.June. Yellow light. Frogs working the ditch like they have a union. An old man in a rocker talks like the night has all week, and a kid thinks he’s hearing a speech about rivers.He isn’t.The grandfather has already been under. He knows love can drop you cold — that’s the other song — but this one is about what happens after the plunge, when nobody is standing on the cliff with a smile that never reached their eyes. Just mornings that don’t know your name. Rented rooms. Bills on the table. Pride in a tomb. The clumsy part of staying alive.His advice is almost insulting in its smallness: keep your head above water. Don’t thrash so hard you forget to float. Breathe when you can. That’s the whole damn trick.Years later the frogs come back when the week goes wrong. The porch is gone. The man is gone. The sentence isn’t. It stops sounding like weather and starts sounding like inheritance — not a promise you’ll be brave, not a promise you won’t sink. Only this: the ones who make it home are the ones who can still think with water at their chin.Keep Your Head Above Water is that voice, passed forward. A summer-night warning dressed as kindness. Sister to Cold, Cold, Cold Water. One is the leap toward new love. This one is how you live after the water has already decided you belong in it.Head up. Breath when you can. Kid.

Keep Your Head Above Water Porch light, June air, frogs in the ditch Old wood rocking, night talking rich Porch light yellow, June hanging low Granddad in the rocker, moving slow Frogs out singing like they own the creek He talks like the night has all week Says, “Boy, you’re gonna look clumsy in life Love’s a cold drop, living’s a long fight Don’t wait for pretty. Don’t wait for fair Just get your mouth up into the air” I thought he meant rivers I thought he meant rain He meant the mornings That don’t know your name Keep your head above water That’s not an easy trick World’s gonna pull, world ain’t polite It don’t care if you can swim or not Keep your head above water When the day gets thick Breathe when you can, don’t waste the night Keep your head above water, kid Years go fast in a rented room Bills on the table, pride in a tomb You jump at love and the water’s ice Then life holds you under twice as nice I hear those frogs when the week goes wrong That old man’s voice is a stubborn song “Don’t thrash so hard you forget to float Chin up, son. That’s how you don’t choke” I thought he meant rivers I thought he meant rain He meant the mornings That don’t know your name Keep your head above water That’s not an easy trick World’s gonna pull, world ain’t polite It don’t care if you can swim or not Keep your head above water When the day gets thick Breathe when you can, don’t waste the night Keep your head above water, kid He didn’t promise I’d be brave Didn’t say I’d never sink Just said the ones who make it home Are the ones who still can think Head up Breathe when you can That’s the whole trick Keep your head above water That’s not an easy trick Cold love will shock you, life will persist Both of them test if you’re done or not Keep your head above water When the dark gets thick Breathe when you can I’m still doing it Keep your head above water, kid Frogs still singing Porch light thin Keep your head above water Keep your head above water Kid x