**Verse I (Clean / hushed)** You came like a low tide lie Soft enough to sound like truth I traced your shape in the fog of my chest Mistaking absence for proof I learned devotion in undertow In the slow collapse of breath Every time I reached for shore You taught me how to sink instead **Pre-Chorus (Clean → Strained)** I called it patience I called it fate But love should not feel Like a widening grave **Chorus (Clean Lead / aching tone)** I loved you the way the sea loves stone Wearing myself down just to stay close I stayed until the salt knew my bones You stayed untouched, you stayed whole If this was faith, it asked for blood If this was grace, it took my name I gave you depth, you gave me distance And called them the same --- **Verse II (Clean / darker tone)** You spoke in currents, never land Left me guessing where to stand I read your silence like weather signs Every pause another warning I ignored I bent like kelp beneath your weight Still hoping for the sun But light doesn’t reach the places Where the drowning has begun **Pre-Chorus II (Half-scream)** I was not healing I was being pulled --- **Chorus II (Clean → Scream Tail)** I loved you like a vow to the deep (***TO THE DEEP***) Like a temple swallowed whole (***SWALLOWED WHOLE***) I kept the fire, you fed the flood (***YOU LET ME SINK***) I gave you everything— ***YOU TOOK AND TOOK AND TOOK*** --- ### **Bridge / Breakdown (FULL SCREAMS – LONG)** ***I LET THE WATER FILL MY LUNGS*** ***YOU LET IT FILL THE SPACE I LEFT*** ***I BLED IN CURRENTS YOU NEVER TOUCHED*** ***YOU CALLED IT LOVE — I CALL IT DEATH*** ***YOU DON’T GET MY DEPTH*** ***YOU DON’T GET MY SLEEP*** ***YOU DON’T GET TO STAND ON SHORE*** ***AND CALL ME WEAK*** ***I WAS NOT THE STORM*** ***I WAS THE SHIP*** ***AND YOU STILL WATCHED ME SPLIT*** *(instrument drop — one sustained scream)* ***LET ME SINK*** --- **Final Chorus (Clean Lead + Layered Screams)** I loved you like the moon loves tide (***IT TEARS ME APART***) Pulling until there’s nothing left (***NOTHING LEFT***) But water remembers every wound (***EVERY WOUND***) And still it learns to turn away If this is love, it ends in teeth (***ENDS IN TEETH***) If this is faith, I break the leash (***BREAK IT***) --- **Outro (Screams → Clean fade)** ***NO MORE ALTARS*** ***NO MORE SHORE*** ***I AM NOT YOUR OCEAN ANYMORE*** I leave my name where you can’t drown it. ---

WHERE THE WATER LEARNS TO BITE