Yo-ho, down below
Yo-ho, don’t let go
Yo-ho, the black tide knows
Love will drag you down below
There’s something moving underneath
I feel it curling at my feet
I crossed an ocean just to leave
But you followed through the deep
I cut the anchor, burned the charts
Threw every memory to the sharks
Some loves die, some grow teeth
And wait for you beneath
One arm for every promise
One arm for every lie
One wrapped around my memory
One won’t let me say goodbye
Love is the Kraken
Coming up from down below
Wraps itself around you
And it never lets you go
Yo-ho, drag me down
Yo-ho, let me go
I’m fighting for the surface
While you’re pulling me below
Love is the Kraken
And you fed it with my soul
I’m swimming through the wreckage
Of the girl you used to know
Down, down, down we go
Yo-ho, down below
Yo-ho, down below
Where the dead loves never go
Yo-ho, row, boys, row
Don’t let the Kraken take my soul
You were beautiful destruction
A lighthouse leading me to rocks
I mistook your chains for shelter
I mistook your cage for docks
Every kiss became an anchor
Every touch another chain
Till I learned that drowning slowly
Still counts as dying all the same
Now the moon is blood above me
And the sea is black as coal
You can keep the ship we sank in
You don’t get to keep my soul
Love is the Kraken
Coming up from down below
Wraps itself around you
And it never lets you go
Yo-ho, drag me down
Yo-ho, let me go
I’m fighting for the surface
While you’re pulling me below
Heave!
Cut the rope!
Ho!
Let it go!
Heave!
There’s a monster
Down below!
Row, row, row
Before the black tide takes your soul
Row, row, row
Some things you love
You have to let go
I thought surviving meant
Learning to breathe underwater
I thought loving you meant
Learning to drown quieter
But I was never meant
To live at the bottom
Just because you were afraid
To swim toward the light
I see you moving underneath me
Tentacles reaching through the blue
But monsters always starve
When you stop feeding them you
Love is the Kraken
Let it rise from down below
Let it wrap around the wreckage
I’m not going where it goes
Yo-ho, cut the line
Yo-ho, this life is mine
I’ve got both hands upon the wheel
And I’m leaving you behind
Love was the Kraken
You were everything I knew
But I’d rather face an ocean
Than keep drowning next to you
Up, up, up I go
From the darkness down below
I’m not begging you to save me
I’m the one who lets me go
Yo-ho, let me rise
There’s a fire in my eyes
The Kraken took the love I knew
But it didn’t take my life
You can keep the wreckage
You can keep the ghosts
I’m done confusing drowning
With being held close
Yo-ho
Down below
Stay there.