"Skinny Dipping" (stylized in all lowercase) is the lead single from Sabrina Carpenter's fifth album Emails I Can't Send. The song was released on September 9, 2021 alongside a music video. It was written by JP Saxe, Julia Michaels, Leroy Clampitt and Sabrina Carpenter.
An acoustic version of the song was released on October 22, 2021.
Lyrics[]
It'll be a Wednesday
And I'll be going to this coffee shop
Hear the barista call an oat milk latte and your name
And I look up from my phone
And think there's no chance it's you, but it is
You'll say, "Hi", I'll say, "Hi, how are you?"
You'll say, "How's your family? How's your sister?"
I'll say, "Shannon's being Shannon"
After a minute of nonsensical chatter, you'll say
"Well, this was really nice, maybe we should do this on purpose sometime"
And it'll have been long enough that we won't harp on (Hmm)
Arguments in your garage
All the ways we sabotaged it (Mmm)
What it was and what it wasn't
We've been swimming on the edge of a cliff
I'm resistant, but goin' down with the ship
It'd be so nice, right? Right?
If we could take it all off and just exist
And skinny dip in water under the bridge
You'll suggest a restaurant we used to go to
And I'll say, "Won't that be too nostalgic?"
And you'll say, "Maybe, but let's do it anyway"
We won't sit at our same old table, I promise
And we won't bring up the past, we'll keep it bureaucratic
And we won't say it
But both of us, we'll be thinking about how different we are
From those scared little kids that had those (Hmm)
Arguments in your garage
All the ways we sabotaged it (Mmm)
What it was and what it wasn't
We've been swimming on the edge of a cliff
I'm resistant, but goin' down with the ship
It'd be so nice, right? Right?
If we could take it all off and just exist
And skinny dip in water under the bridge
Ah-ha-ha, ah-ha, ah-ha, ha
Ah-ha-ha, ah-ha, ah-ha, ha
Ah-ha-ha, ah-ha, ah-ha, ha
Ah-ha-ha, ah-ha, ah-ha, ha
We've been swimming on the edge of a cliff
I'm resistant, but goin' down with the ship
It'd be so nice, right? Right
If we could take it all off and just exist
And skinny dip in water under the bridge
Live performances[]
On October 29, 2021, Carpenter performed "Skinny Dipping" on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon.
Videos[]
Trivia[]
- Sabrina's sister Shannon is mentioned by name in the first verse.
- The ending of the music video served as a teaser for Carpenter's follow-up single "Fast Times".
- When the song was initially released, the title was stylized as "Skinny Dipping", but was changed to lowercase sometime in June 2022, prior to the announcement of her fifth studio album Emails I Can't Send.
[]
| Emails I Can't Send • Vicious • Read Your Mind • Tornado Warnings • Because I Liked a Boy • Already Over • How Many Things • Bet U Wanna • Nonsense • Fast Times • Skinny Dipping • Bad for Business • Decode • Opposite • Feather • Lonesome • Things I Wish You Said |