Underwater

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“Underwater” is the #5 track in Mika’s third studio album, The Origin of Love. It was released as the album’s third single in France and the second single in Europe. In a… Read More

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Underwater Lyrics

[Verse 1]
Bursting through a blood red sky
A slow landslide
And the world we leave behind
It's enough to lose your head
Disappear, and not return again

[Pre-Chorus]
When I fall to my feet
Wearing my heart on my sleeve
All I see just don't make sense
You are the port of my call
You shot and leaving me raw
Now I know you're amazing

[Chorus]
'Cause all I need
Is the love you breathe
Put your lips on me
And I can live
Underwater, underwater, underwater (Ooh)
Underwater (Ooh)

[Verse 2]
Flying through a bright blue sky
With a space boy high
From the world I leave behind
It's enough to lose my head
Disappear, and not be seen again

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[Pre-Chorus]
When I fall to my feet
Wearing my heart on my sleeve
All I see just don't make sense
You are the port of my call
You shot and leaving me raw
Now I know you're amazing

[Chorus]
'Cause all I need
Is the love you breathe
Put your lips on me
And I can live
Underwater, underwater, underwater (Ooh)
(Underwater) Underwater, underwater, I can live underwater
With your love I can breathe, I can breathe underwater
Underwater, underwater
I can live underwater
With your love I can breathe, I can breathe underwater
(Underwater) Underwater, underwater, we could live underwater
With your love I can breathe, I can breathe underwater
(Underwater) Underwater, underwater, we could live underwater
With your love we could breathe, we could breathe
Underwater

About

“Underwater” is the #5 track in Mika’s third studio album, The Origin of Love. It was released as the album’s third single in France and the second single in Europe.

In a video on his YouTube channel, Mika said the piano riff was inspired by Elton John and the lyrics were inspired by a 1997 Levi advert:

So I started writing this thing (…) and I kept on saying ‘Look, I want the song to feel like that Michel Goundry Levi’s commercial, that I remember from when I was a teenager’. That Underwater Love. ‘Could this be underwater love?’ It was a song that was driven to #1 around the world, simply by the strenght of the ad: the sailor falls of his shipping boat and gets kinda rescued by a bunch of topless mermaids who start making out with him and undressing him and it’s kinda ‘to be continued’ and you don’t see the rest of it. And I was like ‘It’d be great to have a pop song inspired by that.