Cold Water Lyrics
Everybody gets high sometimes, you know
What else can we do when we're feelin' low?
So take a deep breath and let it go
You shouldn't be drowning on your own
[Pre-Chorus: Justin Bieber]
And if you feel you're sinking, I will jump right over
Into cold, cold water for you
And although time may take us into different places
I will still be patient with you
And I hope you know
[Chorus: Justin Bieber, Justin Bieber & MØ]
I won't let go
I'll be your lifeline tonight
I won't let go
I'll be your lifeline tonight
[Verse 2: Justin Bieber]
'Cause we all get lost sometimes, you know?
It's how we learn and how we grow
And I wanna lay with you 'til I'm old, o-old
You shouldn't be fighting on your own
[Pre-Chorus: Justin Bieber]
And if you feel you're sinking, I will jump right over
Into cold, cold water for you
And although time may take us into different places
I will still be patient with you
And I hope you know
I won't let go (And I won't let go, no-no, no-no, no, I won't)
I'll be your lifeline tonight
I won't let go
I'll be your lifeline tonight (I won't let, yeah, yeah)
[Bridge: MØ]
Come on, come on, save me from my rocking boat
I just wanna stay afloat, I'm all alone (Float, float, float, float)
And I hope, I hope someone's gonna take me home
Somewhere I can rest my soul (Rest my soul)
I need to know
[Chorus: MØ, Justin Bieber & Both]
You won't let go (And I won't let go, no-no, no-no, no, I won't)
I'll be your lifeline tonight
You won't let go
I'll be your lifeline tonight
[Outro: Justin Bieber]
I won't let go
I won't let go
About
“Cold Water” is about coming together to face adversity and to say that you have your partner’s back no matter what the situation is.
Diplo and Justin Bieber hinted about the song through some cryptic tweets. Diplo then announced to Fact Mag that “Cold Water” would be premiered on his Beats 1 radio show Lazer Sound “sometime Summer 2016.”
In early July, Justin announced their collaboration on the project with a tweet:
On July 20th, in his final teaser for the track, Justin began releasing pieces of the lyrics to “Cold Water” in the form of direct messages to his fans on Twitter who used the #ColdWater2Days hashtag.
Q&A
Find answers to frequently asked questions about the song and explore its deeper meaning
I had been trying to link with Benny Blanco and Ed Sheeran [co-writers of the song] for years to find the right song we could all work on together and the moment I heard this one, I knew that it was the one. The timing was perfect and when we approached Justin, he was also in love with the song we all had written. I thought it would be interesting to incorporate another vocal and seeing she’s family, I reached out to MØ and we decided to try our best to make something fresh and interesting as Major Lazer.
You can tell if something’s authentic or not… I felt like [MØ] was so ambiguous, having grown up singing pop and punk … Her word choice and her metaphors are just so foreign from American songwriters who tend to overuse the same phrases.
The second collaboration between Diplo and Bieber, it’s a single for Major Lazer’s fourth studio release, Music Is the Weapon.
- 2.Lean On
- 3.Cold Water
- 4.Light It Up
- 6.Sua Cara
- 8.Powerful
- 9.Pon de Floor
- 10.Hold the Line
- 14.Get Free
- 15.Run Up
- 16.Jah No Partial
- 17.Be Together
- 18.Bubble Butt
- 19.Jet Blue Jet
- 20.Come On To Me
- 21.Boom
- 23.Loyal
- 24.All My Life
- 25.Tied Up