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This is a very personal song, one of those rare ones that just pop into your head and write themselves over the course of a few days. I had the riff for a few years, then wrote the music and lyrics over 3 days at a low point in my life. In all the complications of life, when it feels like we're trapped by the water, the one thing that's always simple is still there.

Recorded in various hotel rooms on the east coast.

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One thing I know in my deepest part.
It’s there when I can’t move…even cross the room;
Too many decisions in between.
If one time I stopped…and sank just like a shark.
One thing I know would lift me up, would keep me moving.

When you’re sad, you break me down.
And when you’re happy, you make me turn around.
When I’m weak, when I’m frightened, when I’m caught up in the flow,
When I know nothing, that’s the one thing I know.

One thing I see even when I’m closed.
It’s there in the abyss even when I’m staring, wishing for my gaze to be returned
If one day I wished today were yesterday or miles away,
One thing I see would keep me still, would keep me grounded.

When you’re sad, you break me down.
And when you’re happy, you make me turn around.
When I’m weak, when I’m frightened, when I’m drifting out to sea,
When I see nothing, you’re the one thing I see.

And when the world hurts me, you’ll see me stumbling
And falling at your door.
And when it’s you that hurts me, you’ll see me crawling.
That’s when I need you even more.

One thing I feel in my deepest part.
You make me real.
When I lose my breath, you keep me breathing.

When you’re sad, you break me down.
And when you’re happy, you make me turn around.
When I’m weak, when I’m frightened, when the waves are at my heels,
When I feel nothing, you’re the one thing I feel.

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from Retrospect: '04​-​'10, released December 12, 2010

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