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I need nothing
To travel the sea
I need nothing
I need nothing
But there's something
Eating at me
Black water
Take over
Swallowed by a vicious vengeful sea oh ooh oh-oh
Darker days are raining over me oh ooh oh-oh
In the deepest depths I lost myself oh ooh oh-oh
I see myself through someone else
The strange silence
Surrounding me
Grows closer
Feels colder
But I'm ready
To suffer the sea
Black water
Take over
Swallowed by a vicious vengeful sea oh ooh oh-oh
Darker days are raining over me oh ooh oh-oh
In the deepest depths I lost myself oh ooh oh-oh
I see myself through someone else
Swallowed by a vicious vengeful sea oh ooh oh-oh
Darker days are raining over me oh ooh oh-oh
In the deepest depths I lost myself oh ooh oh-oh
I see myself through someone else
Swallowed by a vicious vengeful sea oh ooh oh-oh
Darker days are raining over me oh ooh oh-oh
In the deepest depths I lost myself oh ooh oh-oh
See myself through someone else
To travel the sea
I need nothing
I need nothing
But there's something
Eating at me
Black water
Take over
Swallowed by a vicious vengeful sea oh ooh oh-oh
Darker days are raining over me oh ooh oh-oh
In the deepest depths I lost myself oh ooh oh-oh
I see myself through someone else
The strange silence
Surrounding me
Grows closer
Feels colder
But I'm ready
To suffer the sea
Black water
Take over
Swallowed by a vicious vengeful sea oh ooh oh-oh
Darker days are raining over me oh ooh oh-oh
In the deepest depths I lost myself oh ooh oh-oh
I see myself through someone else
Swallowed by a vicious vengeful sea oh ooh oh-oh
Darker days are raining over me oh ooh oh-oh
In the deepest depths I lost myself oh ooh oh-oh
I see myself through someone else
Swallowed by a vicious vengeful sea oh ooh oh-oh
Darker days are raining over me oh ooh oh-oh
In the deepest depths I lost myself oh ooh oh-oh
See myself through someone else
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I found this interpretation online and I think it's spot on.
"Black Water" is particularly difficult to understand, but it seems to be from the point-of-view of a depressed and lonely person. The person's gender doesn't matter (suggested by how both genders help to sing the song), but what does matter is that this person, instead of seeking help for their depression, actually goes further into the darkness to try to escape.
He/she sailed out on the sea alone and left others behind. Then, loneliness attacked, and the person knew he/she was alone, so she tried to gain power from that loneliness. She even tried to become that loneliness-that empty and powerful "dark water." But these actions leave the person lost and unknown by others. He/she's gone too deep and really needs someone to pull him/her out of the ocean.
The story told here is like the one told in Lord of the Rings (and many other stories) in which many are tempted to use the One Ring to defeat the enemy when, in fact, the Ring is actually the tool of the enemy and is slowly betraying those who use it into further evil and addiction to darkness. Of course, Of Monsters and Men could be going for something completely different...but the analogy does seem to work. The characters in "Black Water" both seek solace in darkness and it doesn't seem to be helping them to any better of a place.