The Drowning

​[Verse 1]
[Instrumentation: Just a solitary, heavily reverberated piano and a very faint, deep sub-bass hum. The vocals are fragile, clean, and intimately close to the microphone.]
Wake me when the pressure finally pulls me under
Fluorescent halos over tragedy
Shatter like a monument of broken futures
To barren rock when the tide pulls away
Shivering in silence, swallow down the venom
It's easier to starve out the ache
So drag me to the deep, medicate the trenches
Anything to force me to sleep.

​[Verse 2]
[Instrumentation: A slow, heartbeat-like tom drum enters. Ambient, delayed clean guitars shimmer in the background like light on water. Vocals gain a little more grit and desperation.]
I came to in a panic, eyes like hollow moons
Just circling the vacuum I’ve become
They try to scale the wreckage, calculate the logic
Of an agony they'll never comprehend
Weeping as they freeze into pillars at the mattress
I'm praying that I pulverize to dust
So drown me in the waves, weather me to nothing
Wash away the ruin and the rust.

​[Instrumental Break / The Drop]
[Instrumentation: The piano hangs on one dissonant chord. A single heavy snare crack hits, and the floor falls out. The full band enters with an earth-shattering, syncopated djent groove. Impossibly heavy, drop-tuned guitars lock in with a chaotic double-kick pattern. Above the chaos, a soaring, ethereal synthesizer pad keeps the oceanic atmosphere intact. It sounds like a tidal wave crashing.]
[Screamed backing vocals layered deep in the mix]: weather ME TO NOTHING!
​[Verse 3]
[Instrumentation: The heavy groove suddenly cuts out, returning instantly to just the solitary piano from the beginning. The contrast is jarring and emotional.]
[Clean Vocals]
Wake me when the pressure finally pulls me under
Fluorescent halos over tragedy
Shatter like a monument of broken futures
To barren rock when the tide pulls away.
​[Outro]
[Instrumentation: The massive, heavy djent guitars slam back in, but slower this time. A sludgy, doom-metal inspired crawl. The vocals shift from soaring cleans to a visceral, tearing fry scream.]
Let me sleep.
Let me sleep.
PULL ME UNDER!
(Just let me sleep)
Let me sleep!
LET ME SLEEP!
[Music abruptly cuts to a single piano note echoing out into the silence

Dark atmospheric piano, emotional male vocals, sudden brutal drop E djent breakdown, oceanic metalcore, atmospheric, sad