MERMAID [Intro] They say the ocean keeps everything— The dead ships. The black boxes. The girls who got tired of carrying the world in their ribcage. ⸻ [Verse 1] There’s a hotel by the harbor Where the windows never close. You can hear the waves all winter Like somebody breaking slow. I used to press my ear against them After another sleepless night. Blue neon trembling on my skin Like a warning dressed as light. And God, I wanted in. ⸻ [Pre-Chorus] Not heaven. Not hell. Just somewhere cold enough To numb me for a while. ⸻ [Chorus] I wanna be a mermaid. Beautiful and hard to save. Sink beneath the tide Like a body nobody claimed. I wanna be a mermaid. Let the waves wash over me. Let the tide come steal What this city did to me. No heaven. No angels. Just the deep blue calling me. ⸻ [Verse 2] Everybody here is heartsick, Lipstick cracking in the cold. The girls here learn to smile The same way bruises yellow. The boys downtown speak in sirens, Cheap cologne and empty threats. Everybody wants your body Until it starts remembering. And every party ends the same— Bathroom lights and blurry faces, Trying to scrub another night Off our skin without collapsing. ⸻ [Pre-Chorus] Sometimes I stand beside the pier And understand why storms exist. Why something beautiful Eventually has to wreck. ⸻ [Chorus] I wanna be a mermaid. Beautiful and hard to save. Sink beneath the tide Like a body nobody claimed. I wanna be a mermaid. Let the waves wash over me. Let the tide come steal What this city did to me. No heaven. No angels. Just the deep blue calling me. ⸻ [Bridge] Maybe we belong to water. Maybe that’s the tragedy. We spend our lives on land With oceans trapped inside our bodies. Every flooded eye. Every shaking pulse. Every mouthful of salt. Proof of where we came from. And maybe all my life I mistook survival for living. Maybe drowning only sounds terrifying To people who’ve never been this lonely. ⸻ [Final Chorus] I wanna be a mermaid. Beautiful and hard to save. Sink beneath the tide Like a body nobody claimed. I wanna be a mermaid. Let the waves wash over me. Let the tide come steal What this city did to me. No heaven. No angels. Just the deep blue calling me. I got so good at disappearing. Nobody noticed me drown. If this world was built to break me, Then let the water take me now. ⸻ [Outro] Some nights, The sea sounds less like drowning— And more like mercy.
