[INTRO – ELECTRO PULSE, NO VOCALS, SYNCOPATED 16TH GROOVE]
[VERSE 1]
Oh it's perfectly fine down here, I swear
The pressure's just a gentle kind of care
My lungs have learned to improvise, you see
Turns out I never needed air — not me
The fish give me this look, I can't explain
Like, honey, you are clearly not okay
But I just wave politely and I stay
Down in my absolutely thriving way
[PRE-CHORUS]
They said "come up, come up, the surface is right there"
I said "I'm good, I'm good — I love it everywhere"
Salt in my voice, chlorophyll in my hair
Breathing underwater — it's a lifestyle, dear
[CHORUS – FULL BAND, BOUNCING RHYTHM, LAYERED HARMONICS]
Breathing underwater, doing great
Never been better, don't relate
To that whole oxygen debate
Breathing underwater, feeling free
The coral thinks I'm finally me
And who am I to disagree
With the sea — with the beautiful, drowning sea
[VERSE 2 – STRIPPED BACK, RAW VOCAL, ELECTRO TEXTURES]
I've scheduled all my panic for next year
My calendar is blessedly unclear
I've made a little home beside the wreck
(It's not a metaphor, or — well — check)
The current brings me all the news I need
All soaking wet and pleasantly agreed
My therapist is a philosophic eel
He doesn't speak but God he makes me feel
[BRIDGE – VOCAL SPOKEN/SUNG, CINEMATIC SWELL]
You know what they don't tell you about water
It holds you — really holds you — like a daughter
Or a secret — or a hand that won't let go
Isn't that just — isn't that just — oh
~ ~ ~
I meant to surface sometime around June
June of some unspecified year — soon
[EXPERIMENTAL BREAK – GLITCH ELECTRONICS, BEATLESS, WHISPERED IMPROV]
(spoken, fragmented, half-sung)
...bubbles going up... I wave... they wave back...
...everyone down here is very understanding...
...there's a lot of light actually... blue light...
...it's absolutely... it's absolutely fine...
[FINAL CHORUS – FULL LAYERED VOCALS, SYNCOPATED PULSE AT PEAK]
Breathing underwater, doing great
Never been better, don't relate
To that whole oxygen debate
Breathing underwater, feeling free
The coral thinks I'm finally me
And who am I to disagree
With the sea
With the sea
With the beautiful — inevitable — sea
[OUTRO – ELECTRO PULSE DISSOLVES, SINGLE VOICE, FADES]
(humming, then silence)
...perfectly fine...