Surface Above

[Verse 1]
Eyes open under water
Your shadow on the waves
Words float like broken petals
I taste the salt you gave
Heartbeat in the distance
Like footsteps up a stair
I reach but you keep sinking
Your fingers slip from prayer
[Chorus]
I’m trying to find the surface
Breathing in a borrowed tide
If love is only deeper
Why do I feel buried alive
I’m trying to find the surface
Where the light can touch my face
But every time I’m rising
You pull me back into your waves
[Verse 2]
You smile through all my shivers
Say “trust me
Just dive in”
But every promise heavy
Like stones against my skin
Your silence
It grows taller
A wall of glass and foam
I knock until my knuckles burn
Still can’t call this home
[Chorus]
[Bridge]
[low vocal register] Raag on my tongue
I call your name in pieces
O-oo-oo
Aa-aa-aa [melismatic ad-lib]
Hands above my head
Searching for the ceiling
Is there air up there
Or only you
Only you [echoed
Distant]
[Chorus]

Glacial ambient bed with evolving pads and distant temple bells, gentle tanpura drone, and sparse cinematic hits. Female Indian vocals, airy and close-mic’d, with reverb-drenched ad-libs that drift like mist. Verse is intimate and fragile; chorus blooms with layered harmonies and faint vocal swells. Subtle rhythmic pulses rise in the bridge then slowly dissolve back into stillness., ambient