[INTRO — DISTANT / DREAMLIKE] [vinyl crackle] Everybody looks lighter from underneath. [soft laugh] Funny how that works. [guitar enters] [VERSE 1] You came through the doorway wearing summer on your face, said the world was getting stranger, I said, “Yeah, I like the taste.” There were shadows in the kitchen, little earthquakes in the floor, something breathing through the speakers, something waiting at the door. You said, “Don't make it complicated.” I said, “That ship has sailed.” Then the ceiling started swimming and the television paled. [PRE-CHORUS] We keep dancing like the room ain't sinking, keep smiling while the wires start blinking, head above water, heart underwater, tell me what the hell were we thinking? [CHORUS — MALE LEAD + FLOATING FEMALE HARMONIES] I'm floating in the heavy water, down where the noise gets beautiful, pull me a little further under, somewhere impossible. Everything bends when I get near you, everything loud becomes slow, floating in the heavy water— don't know if I'm sinking or learning to float. [DROP] [CHOPPED VOCAL] “Learning to—” [SILENCE] “FLOAT.” [huge elastic bass drop] [VERSE 2] Streetlights drip like honey through the cracks inside my eyes, every stranger has a secret, every billboard tells me lies. Taxi radio is talking like it knows me personally, saying, “Please remain completely calm.” That's concerning, obviously. I can hear the city breathing through a broken kick and snare, feel the bass beneath the pavement like a monster sleeping there. Maybe madness has a rhythm. Maybe chaos has a key. Maybe everything I've run from was just trying to catch me. [PRE-CHORUS] We keep dancing while the room keeps spinning, lose the ending, find a new beginning, head above water, heart underwater, maybe going under feels like winning. [CHORUS] I'm floating in the heavy water, down where the noise gets beautiful, pull me a little further under, somewhere impossible. Everything bends when I get near you, everything loud becomes slow, floating in the heavy water— don't know if I'm sinking or learning to float. [SECOND DROP — DARKER] [whisper] How deep does this go? [VOICE] Wrong question. [whisper] What's the right one? [VOICE] How deep are you? [SILENCE] [BASS DETONATES] [MID-SONG AMBIENT COLLAPSE] [drums disappear] [female vocal ghosts] Ooh— don't wake me yet. Ooh— I'm not finished falling. [MALE — CLOSE SPOKEN] There's a strange little peace when you stop fighting the current. No map. No edge. No floor. Just pressure, colour, memory— and that ridiculous part of your brain still asking whether you locked the front door. [distant laughter] [BUILD] One heartbeat. Two. Three— [FAKE DROP] Nothing. [whisper] Beautiful. [FINAL DROP — EUPHORIC / INSANE] [CHORUS — FULL MALE/FEMALE] I'm floating in the heavy water, down where the noise gets beautiful, pull me a little further under, past everything logical. All of the fear becomes electric, all of the dark begins to glow, floating in the heavy water— maybe I was never sinking. Maybe— I was learning to float. [CHOPPED CHORUS] Learning to— learning to— learning to— [SILENCE] FLOAT. [FINAL BASS IMPACT] [OUTRO — GUITAR + VINYL + DISTANT WATER] [MALE] Everybody looks lighter from underneath. [FEMALE] Come up when you're ready. [MALE] Yeah. Maybe in a minute. [tape slows] [END]
