"Under the Water" is a song written in 1990 by Owen Bolwell and Stanley Paulzen, produced by Siew for Australian singer-songwriter Merril Bainbridge's first album, The Garden (1995).

[4] The song spent a total of 16 weeks in the top 50, and the Australian Recording Industry Association (ARIA) awarded the single a platinum certification for shipping 70,000 copies.

[7] The song was released in the United States on 18 February 1997 but failed to replicate the top-10 success of "Mouth", peaking at ninety-one and spending only six weeks on the Billboard Hot 100.

The original Australian version was a simple black and white video with Bainbridge walking around a forest and performing the song with a band.

However, when Bainbridge broke in the U.S. with her previous single "Mouth", a sleeker video, directed by Martin Kahan,[8] was produced for the American market.