Still Water
The track opens with minor key acoustic guitar fingerpicking, setting a moody tropicália tone. A vintage synth drone weaves through the mix, lending a coldwave edge. Sparse percussion—soft hand drums and distant shakers—adds subtle motion. Baritone male vocals, soaked in reverb, drift melancholically above, echoing against the cinematic, still backdrop. Appalachian folk textures—gentle fiddle lines or banjo accents—intermittently surface, each note stretching with slow decay, maintaining an intr
Still Water
The track opens with minor key acoustic guitar fingerpicking, setting a moody tropicália tone. A vintage synth drone weaves through the mix, lending a coldwave edge. Sparse percussion—soft hand drums and distant shakers—adds subtle motion. Baritone male vocals, soaked in reverb, drift melancholically above, echoing against the cinematic, still backdrop. Appalachian folk textures—gentle fiddle lines or banjo accents—intermittently surface, each note stretching with slow decay, maintaining an intr
Lyrics
Verse 1
No signal fires burning on the hill
No enemies left standing — just the still
The clock ticks loud inside an empty room
I built this silence like a second womb
No calls, no knives, no war left to survive
Just me and what it costs to stay alive
This peace was carved from bone and what I lost
Not sold in any market, not a cost
Pre-Chorus
The jungle outside speaks in borrowed tongues
They smile with borrowed teeth and borrowed lungs
I watched them circle — patient, soft, and slow
I let the door go cold, I let them go
Chorus
I live inside my own world now
Where the river doesn't bend for crowd
Just me and every thought I've kept
The ones I fed, the ones I wept
They reached for me when nothing shined
I gave them nothing — peace of mind
Still water kingdom, no one's claim
I burned the bridge and kept the flame
Verse 2
They come around when something needs to bleed
A favor dressed in warmth, a wolf in need
The moment that I stood with empty hands
They vanished like a smoke ring in the sand
No love that wasn't leverage, not one name
No friendship that didn't arrive with claim
I studied every pattern, every door
I don't open for that kind anymore
Pre-Chorus
The vines can grow across the gate I sealed
The wound was never shown — it never healed
But healing isn't noise and it's not them
It's me, alone, and quiet like a stem
Chorus
I live inside my own world now
Where the river doesn't bend for crowd
Just me and every thought I've kept
The ones I fed, the ones I wept
They reached for me when nothing shined
I gave them nothing — peace of mind
Still water kingdom, no one's claim
I burned the bridge and kept the flame
Bridge — sparse, almost spoken, coldwave pulse underneath
People aren't a comfort
People are a cost
Every outstretched hand I trusted
Was a hand that helped me loss
I don't say this with a wound now
I say it with a map
I know the shape of every back
Before it turns to stab
Outro — slow, drifting, Tropicália decay into silence
Just me and the long days
Just me and the long days
This was never loneliness
This was always mine
Just me and the long days
This was always mine