**WATERFALL** [Intro: airy future-pop pads, filtered vocal chop, distant piano, reversed textures, no drums] [Verse 1: soft emotional male vocal, intimate and close; muted synth pulse, deep sub, sparse percussion] I build myself up To sail through the weather Spend all my days trying To hold myself together Round the serpentine Same empty conversations I smile, I nod, I disappear Inside the repetition Friends say I attach to the fracture Chase after Every absence, every answer And ketamine can kill the noise But not the need beneath it Every time you leave the room My nervous system feels it [Pre-Chorus: kick enters softly, sidechained pads swelling, rising synth arpeggio, vocal gaining urgency] I hope you know What you hold Was shaped by pressure Bright enough to cut you If you hold it wrong And I don't know If it's love Or just the fear Of losing something I never really had [Chorus / Drop: explosive melodic future-bass drop, bright supersaws, punchy kick, clean claps, wide sidechained pads, layered male vocal, chopped “waterfall” vocal hook] Wash over me like a waterfall Do what you want Just don't let me go Till the moon finally Gives into the sun Look in your eyes And I make them mean one thing That we should be more than friends Maybe the universe conspired for us Or maybe I just needed Every coincidence To mean something [Post-Chorus: euphoric vocal chops over supersaw chords] Meet this way Meet this way, meet this way I needed it To mean something Wa-wa-waterfall To mean something [Verse 2: drums pull back, atmospheric reverb, pulsing bass, soft emotional vocal] I pay my bills Keep the house on the hill Give my blood away Just to prove I'm useful still I can save a stranger I can show up everywhere Funny how I do it all And still need you to care I give, I give Till giving turns obsessive Call it love When maybe it's defensive If I make myself essential Would you finally choose to stay? If I become everything you need Could you still walk away? [Pre-Chorus: snare build, rising synths, bass opening, increasingly layered vocals] Throw away our history We could start from here But every new beginning Still remembers every fear Oo-oo, the time is running out Oo-oo, reach through me, pull it out Oo-oo, I keep mistaking need for fate Oo-oo, calling hunger something great [Chorus / Drop 2: bigger future-bass drop, octave vocal layers, supersaw wall, vocal chops answering lead] Wash over me like a waterfall Do what you want Just don't let me go Till the moon finally Gives into the sun Look in your eyes And I make them mean one thing That we should be more than friends I swear the universe conspired for us Every road was bending Every accident arranging For us to meet this way [Post-Chorus: chopped hook, festival-scale synth melody] Meet this way Meet this way, meet this way For us to meet this way Meet this way, meet this way [Bridge / Breakdown: drums vanish; piano, washed pads, close almost-whispered vocal; emotional low point] If you leave Am I still someone? If you stay Am I complete? If I need you to confirm me Is that love Or just belief? I made scripture from your silence Made a prophecy from touch Built a temple out of longing Then I worshipped it too much Maybe love is just a mirror Held against the oldest fear That somebody finally sees us Then decides to disappear [Build: heartbeat kick returns, chopped breaths, rising snare roll, supersaws slowly opening] I called it fate I called it truth I called it everything Except the wound Oo-oo, now the water's rising high Oo-oo, no more heaven in your eyes Oo-oo, if the current takes me down [Half-bar silence] I won't call the drowning sacred now [Final Chorus / Massive Drop: full euphoric festival drop, huge supersaws, layered male vocals, octave harmonies, heavy sidechain, vocal chops, bright melodic lead] Wash over me like a waterfall Do what you want I can finally let go Let the moon disappear Let it give into the sun Look in your eyes And they don't owe me anything We don't have to be more than friends Maybe there was no conspiracy No hidden hand, no destiny Maybe I was only trying To make the chaos mean something [Extended Drop / Post-Chorus: soaring synth lead, chopped “waterfall / mean something” vocals] Meet this way Meet this way, meet this way We only met this way Met this way, met this way Wa-wa-waterfall Let it fall Let it fall I don't need it To mean anything at all [Outro: drop collapses into piano, distant chopped vocal and fading pad] And if love is real It shouldn't need a sign Shouldn't need the stars To rearrange themselves in time I thought the waterfall Would wash me clean It only showed me What was underneath
