[Intro – vocal: soft, breath-led | instrumental: low submerged drone, distant piano, bowed string swell, deep sub-bass]
I say I’m fine like it holds shape like water still enough to look safe (…fine…)
but something underneath is moving slow like it never learned to stop
quiet at first like it knows I won’t notice until it’s too late (…late…)
[Pre-Chorus – vocal: rising tension | instrumental: undertow builds, strings deepen, pulse steadies]
it doesn’t rise like a wave it pulls from underneath my skin
I feel it before I see it like gravity changing where I stand (…stand…)
I wasn’t falling all at once I was being taken piece by piece (I—)
[Chorus – vocal: strained chest voice | instrumental: crash + pullback undertow, percussion surge, bass swell]
it hits like water breaking wrong like something pulling me along
I was standing in the open air then suddenly I wasn’t
this isn’t loud it’s getting caught in something I can’t name yet
and I can feel it closing in like it already knows my breath (…breath…)
[Verse – vocal: grounded, internal | instrumental: reduced, submerged piano, restrained strings]
depression doesn’t crash it builds like water filling up a room
slow enough to doubt it’s real until there’s nowhere left to move (…move…)
I keep going like I’m still fine until the air feels out of reach
like I am still here but further down than I meant to be (…be…)
[Pre-Chorus 2 – vocal: tighter, faster | instrumental: tension rises, rhythmic drag increases]
there’s no warning it just deepens like the ground lets go of me (no—no warning…)
[Chorus – vocal: stronger, more urgent | instrumental: full surge cycle, wave impact + pullback]
it hits like drowning without sound like being pulled and still aware
I was standing there pretending still while everything beneath me shifted
this isn’t breaking it’s the moment I stop being where I was
and I can feel it dragging me out while I keep trying to stay (…stay…)
[Bridge – vocal: fragile whisper | instrumental: near silence, isolated piano, underwater stillness]
I’m fine I’m fine I’m fine until I’m not until I go too far down (…down…)
and I reach for the surface like it remembers how to hold me (…hold me…)
[Final Chorus – vocal: peak intensity, slightly fractured delivery | instrumental: full orchestral + electronic surge, then controlled collapse]
it hits like water breaking wrong like something pulling me along
I was standing in the open air then suddenly I wasn’t
this isn’t loud it’s getting caught in something I can’t name yet
and I can feel it closing in like it already knows my breath (…breath…)
I don’t disappear all at once I go in pieces I don’t get back (…back…)
[Outro – vocal: fading, exhausted clarity | instrumental: undertow dissolves into deep quiet hum]
I break the surface just enough to know I was under (…under…)
and it feels less like I escaped and more like I was allowed (allowed…) (I—)