65 Floors above the tide

(Intro)

(Waves crash… sirens fade…)

(Heavy breathing)

What is going on outside?

Water rising to the neon lights

Seventeen floors swallowed in the night

I gotta move before the city dies

Windows shaking, power lines glow

Black sky crying on the streets below

Sixty-five more stories left to climb

And the flood keeps crawling right behind

(Verse 1)

Running up the staircase barefoot cold

Every hallway drowning in the smoke

Emergency lights paint the walls blood red

And every single heartbeat screams in my head

People crying through apartment doors

Memories floating across the floor

Pictures drifting like ghosts in rain

Everything I loved going down the drain

I hear the thunder split the sky in two

Hear my own voice screaming out for you

But the signal died somewhere below

Now it’s just me and the undertow

(Pre-Chorus)

Don’t let the water pull me under

Don’t let the darkness steal my lungs

Every second feels like forever

While the whole world comes undone

(Chorus)

I’m running, running, running to the rooftop

Flood rising higher, never gonna stop

City underwater, tears in the raindrops

I can’t look down, no I can’t look down

I’m climbing every floor like it’s my last breath

Neon angels hanging over the edge

If I survive tonight maybe I’ll confess

I was terrified of dying alone

(Post-Chorus)

Oh-oh-oh

The tide keeps calling my name

Oh-oh-oh

Nothing will ever be the same

(Verse 2)

Forty stories up and my legs give out

I can hear the ocean in the stairwell now

Steel beams groaning like they’re alive

This tower barely survives

Helicopters vanish in the haze

Lightning turns the skyline into graves

I see reflections in the pouring black

Like the whole world’s never coming back

Then I hear your voice inside my mind

“Keep moving forward, don’t you fall behind”

So I wipe the rain out from my eyes

And keep racing toward the satellite skies

(Bridge)

And if the roof collapses under me

If the waves erase this city clean

Will somebody know I tried to fight?

Will somebody hear me in the night?

I don’t wanna fade beneath the sea

I still got unfinished dreams in me

So I’ll keep climbing through the storm

Till the sunrise finds me reborn

(Final Chorus)

I’m running, running, running through the heartbreak

Through the sirens and the earthquakes

Every step another chance I take

To make it out alive tonight

Floodwaters reaching for my shadow

Moonlight breaking through the windows

At the top I finally see the glow

Of morning burning through the rain

(Outro)

(Waves soften… wind blows…)

Sixty-five floors above the tide

I close my eyes and watch the sunrise

The city drowned beneath the gray

But somehow… I survived today.