The Shore (The Old Man and the Sea)
Dark Trip-Hop, Obsessive Heartbeat Kick never stops, Spoken Word close-mic young male vocals clear thin, Heavy Sub-Bass slow pulse, Rhodes Piano sparse and worn, Vinyl Crackle like salt on skin, Cinematic Minor Key, Slow Relentless Tempo, Hypnotic, Intimate, Tense stillness, Crushing low-end sparse arrangement, The beat breathes but never sleeps
The Shore (The Old Man and the Sea)
Dark Trip-Hop, Obsessive Heartbeat Kick never stops, Spoken Word close-mic young male vocals clear thin, Heavy Sub-Bass slow pulse, Rhodes Piano sparse and worn, Vinyl Crackle like salt on skin, Cinematic Minor Key, Slow Relentless Tempo, Hypnotic, Intimate, Tense stillness, Crushing low-end sparse arrangement, The beat breathes but never sleeps
Lyrics
Intro
Sparse beat, sea ambience
Three days. No sleep.
Just the harbor. Just the dark.
Just this.
Verse 1
The sea doesn't tell you anything.
It just moves.
I watch the place where he rowed in
until the place becomes just water.
His coffee cup still on the table.
I don't wash it.
His nets folded the way he folds them.
I don't touch them.
I tell no one I'm still waiting.
They wouldn't understand.
The water holds no answer
so I hold the shore instead.
Chorus
He is out there, sea
I know who he is
He is out there, sea
my eyes have forgotten how to leave
He is out there, sea
through dark and wave and brine
I know who he is
He holds the line
Verse 2
Other men come back by evening.
They don't say anything.
That's how I know
it's not yet time to say anything.
I go to his shack.
I fold his blanket.
I don't know why.
The hands do what the hands know.
I've memorized every boat that isn't his.
The sea is wide enough for truth
when all you can do
is wait and believe and say nothing.
Chorus
He is out there, sea
I know who he is
He is out there, sea
my eyes have forgotten how to leave
He is out there, sea
through dark and wave and brine
I know who he is
He holds the line
Bridge
Beat drops to kick only
I should not have let him go alone.
Just that.
Nothing more.
Final Chorus
He is out there, sea
I know who he is
He is out there, sea
my eyes have forgotten how to leave
He is out there, sea
through dark and wave and brine
I know who he is
He holds the line
Outro
Sea ambience only
Three days. No sleep.
Just the harbor.
Just this.