**[Intro – clean electric guitars with heavy reverb + delay, slow picked notes, distant synth wash]**
*(soft vocal, almost whispered, echoing)*
Waves keep crashing… but I'm not on board…
anymore…
**[Verse 1 – downtuned rhythm guitar chugs lightly, palm-muted, chillwave shimmer on top]**
I stood on the dock with my hands in my pockets
Watched your silhouette fade into the fog
You waved like it mattered, like promises weren't broken
But the tide took the words right out of my mouth
I screamed at the water, but it just laughed back
Echoes of "forever" drowned in the black
Tried to swim after, lungs full of regret
But the current said "nope, not this time, not yet"
**[Pre-Chorus – guitars start building, adding overdriven edge]**
I can still taste the salt on my tongue
Feel the rope burns where I held too long
**[Chorus – full nu metal drop: heavy distorted guitars "singing" with melodic leads wailing over the riff, layered harmonies, big reverb]**
**That ship sailed, baby, that ship sailed**
Electric ghosts in the rigging, they're wailing my name
**That ship sailed, yeah, that ship sailed**
I'm still standing here burning in yesterday's flame
Guitars cry out like they're bleeding for two
Singing the hurt that I'm too numb to do
**That ship sailed… and it ain't coming back for you**
**[Verse 2 – back to hazy, cleaner tone, but with a slow groovy bassline]**
Neon signs flicker on empty boardwalks
Memories replay like a scratched VHS
Your laugh in the static, your touch in the spray
But the forecast says "gone," no chance of you today
I light another smoke just to watch it disappear
Same way you vanished, year after year
The horizon's mocking me, straight line to nowhere
Guess I'm the fool still staring at empty air
**[Pre-Chorus]**
Salt in the wound, rust on the chain
Some things sink slow, but they still bring the pain
**[Chorus – even bigger, add screamed backing vocals under the singing leads]**
**That ship sailed, baby, that ship sailed**
Electric ghosts screaming loud through the rain
**That ship sailed, fuck yeah, that ship sailed**
I'm done chasing shadows, done drowning in vain
Guitars howl like they're tearing the sky
Singing the end while the old me dies
**That ship sailed… let it fucking sail away**
**[Bridge – breakdown: slow chug, almost djent-y palm mutes + chillwave synth swells, spoken/rap-sung delivery]**
Yeah… I see you out there sometimes
In the rearview, shrinking small
Thought I needed your anchor
Turns out I just needed to fall…
…apart… to start
*(guitars drop into clean, dreamy arpeggios again)*
No more chasing ghosts on the water
No more begging the tide to turn
**[Final Chorus – huge, layered, guitars really "singing" with soaring leads, full band]**
**That ship sailed, motherfucker, that ship sailed**
Electric choirs ringing out through the haze
**That ship sailed… and I'm finally okay**
Waves can crash
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