alkaline waters

Verse I

I loved you like a secret I kept from myself

Like something holy I wasn’t meant to touch

I learned the shape of your silence

The way you’d leave without leaving much

You tasted like permanence

But dissolved in my hands

I kept sinking deeper

While you were learning how to stand elsewhere

Pre-Chorus

I tried to meet you in the middle

But you were already gone

I don’t bleed for that anymore

I learned what I deserve to be held by

Chorus

I don’t drown in you

I float above

I learned the difference between

Intimacy and love

You didn’t break me

You refined me

Like fire through skin

Like alkaline water

I came out cleaner than I went in

Verse II

I prayed with my body

Hoping you’d listen

Laid myself bare

Called it submission

But devotion without balance

Turns faith into need

I won’t kneel for affection

That never chose me

Pre-Chorus II

I don’t resent the way you touched me

I just won’t beg to be kept

Some love teaches you longing

Some teaches you self-respect

Chorus

I don’t drown in you

I float above

I learned the difference between

Intimacy and love

You didn’t break me

You refined me

I feel myself again

Like alkaline water

Neutralizing where I’ve been

Bridge (quiet, Vessel-style intimacy)

I was never asking for too much

I was asking the wrong hands

I mistook your distance

For depth I didn’t understand

But I’m not empty

I’m becoming

There’s a calm in letting go

If you couldn’t meet me in the water

Then you were never meant to know

Final Chorus (swelling, emotional release)

I don’t drown in you

I rise above

I know my worth

I know my blood

You didn’t ruin me

You reminded me

Of who I’ve always been

I stepped out of the water

And I didn’t look back again

Outro

Some things cleanse

Some things corrode

What didn’t choose me

Couldn’t keep me whole