WHERE THE WATER LEARNS TO BITE

**Verse I (Clean / hushed)**

You came like a low tide lie

Soft enough to sound like truth

I traced your shape in the fog of my chest

Mistaking absence for proof

I learned devotion in undertow

In the slow collapse of breath

Every time I reached for shore

You taught me how to sink instead

**Pre-Chorus (Clean → Strained)**

I called it patience

I called it fate

But love should not feel

Like a widening grave

**Chorus (Clean Lead / aching tone)**

I loved you the way the sea loves stone

Wearing myself down just to stay close

I stayed until the salt knew my bones

You stayed untouched, you stayed whole

If this was faith, it asked for blood

If this was grace, it took my name

I gave you depth, you gave me distance

And called them the same

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**Verse II (Clean / darker tone)**

You spoke in currents, never land

Left me guessing where to stand

I read your silence like weather signs

Every pause another warning I ignored

I bent like kelp beneath your weight

Still hoping for the sun

But light doesn’t reach the places

Where the drowning has begun

**Pre-Chorus II (Half-scream)**

I was not healing

I was being pulled

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**Chorus II (Clean → Scream Tail)**

I loved you like a vow to the deep

(***TO THE DEEP***)

Like a temple swallowed whole

(***SWALLOWED WHOLE***)

I kept the fire, you fed the flood

(***YOU LET ME SINK***)

I gave you everything—

***YOU TOOK AND TOOK AND TOOK***

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### **Bridge / Breakdown (FULL SCREAMS – LONG)**

***I LET THE WATER FILL MY LUNGS***

***YOU LET IT FILL THE SPACE I LEFT***

***I BLED IN CURRENTS YOU NEVER TOUCHED***

***YOU CALLED IT LOVE — I CALL IT DEATH***

***YOU DON’T GET MY DEPTH***

***YOU DON’T GET MY SLEEP***

***YOU DON’T GET TO STAND ON SHORE***

***AND CALL ME WEAK***

***I WAS NOT THE STORM***

***I WAS THE SHIP***

***AND YOU STILL WATCHED ME SPLIT***

*(instrument drop — one sustained scream)*

***LET ME SINK***

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**Final Chorus (Clean Lead + Layered Screams)**

I loved you like the moon loves tide

(***IT TEARS ME APART***)

Pulling until there’s nothing left

(***NOTHING LEFT***)

But water remembers every wound

(***EVERY WOUND***)

And still it learns to turn away

If this is love, it ends in teeth

(***ENDS IN TEETH***)

If this is faith, I break the leash

(***BREAK IT***)

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**Outro (Screams → Clean fade)**

***NO MORE ALTARS***

***NO MORE SHORE***

***I AM NOT YOUR OCEAN ANYMORE***

I leave my name where you can’t drown it.

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