[Cold Open – isolated low piano note, silence, clean baritone guitar harmonic] The water moved. I stayed still. [Verse 1 – very low dark MID VOICE, piano and one clean guitar note at a time] Copper in the current. Silver near the stone. Pressure folding inward. A signal without a home. Heat beneath the surface. Salt remembers skin. Every sense turns toward you. Something living moving in. [Anti-Rhythmic Pre-Chorus – words enter separately across broken bar lines] No face. No name. Only a pulse inside the frame. Claws— [three beats of silence] see— [one isolated piano note] fish. [Chorus – sad descending melody, bass and restrained drums enter] I make you mine before the dark takes you away. I make you mine before your signal starts to fade. Your heartbeat moves below me. Your current crosses mine. I close the water around us. I make you mine. [Instrumental Reset – piano alone] [Verse 2 – piano, bass root notes, almost no drums] False warmth on the seabed. A wounded rhythm low. I bent the echo inward. I showed the current where to go. I hid beneath the gravel. I emptied out the light. Every danger sounded gentle. Every warning sounded right. [Anti-Rhythmic Pre-Chorus – different pauses, no regular pattern] Come near. Come through. Every signal was made for you. Claws— [two beats of silence] see— [half-bar silence] fish. [Chorus – same melody, one distorted guitar enters only on sustained notes] I make you mine before the dark takes you away. I make you mine before your signal starts to fade. Your heartbeat moves below me. Your current crosses mine. I close the water around us. I make you mine. [Long Cut – piano note, bass pulse, silence] [Verse 3 – voice, piano and bass only] The distance broke between us. My claws came through the foam. The silver left the surface. The water closed you in. Your heartbeat struck against me. Your signal crossed my spine. For one suspended second, your pulse became like mine. [Complete Stop] [Verse 4 – exposed voice and piano] But I never came to hurt you. I never came to stop your heart. I closed my claws around the distance, not the life between the parts. I did not hunt to end your movement. I hunted what could answer mine. Not prey. Not trophy. A second pulse inside the line. [Final Anti-Rhythmic Pre-Chorus – words placed against the returning drum pulse] No cage. No wound. No body left behind. Claws— [drums enter on the next beat] see— [piano strikes after the vocal] fish. [Final Chorus – full but still sparse, deeply sad] I make you mine but leave your living current free. I make you mine and let your signal move with me. Your heartbeat stays beside me. Your movement keeps its line. Two shadows under black water. Your pulse beside mine. [Final Tag – piano and voice only] Not prey. Counterpart. [One low piano chord] Mine.
