## 🌊 **Title: "Under"** ### **Intro** [improvisational cello intro hook] ### **Verse 1** [Verse/Intro: Dry fingerpicked guitar, close‑mic’d breath, single low cello drone, subtle room tone.] My lungs fill before I even speak Salt in my ears, my hands go weak No splash, just suspended sleep Here in my darkness, in the deep ### **Pre-Chorus** [Pre‑Chorus: Add a reversed piano swell, cello grows, vocal barely above a whisper.] Gravity is quiet, it doesn’t plead It just lies down beside my need ### **Chorus** [Chorus: Soft, dampened piano chords; full low‑string swell; distant reverb tails; vocal lifts yet remains fragile] Under Where the light dims slow Under I go where currents flow I want to scream—no air to borrow All I find is the weight of tomorrow ### **Verse 2** I taste your absence like iron and glass Your last words roll past Under, I trace your ghost in the black Let go—can't breathe, can't turn back ### **Bridge** [Bridge: Introduce a heartbeat kick (low tom), detuned strings bending downward, voice cracks on key words] Panic is tidal— it pulls me under Heart thuds in the hush, a dying thunder I don’t fight but I don’t yield I’m here, a body, a bruise in the field ### **Final Chorus (Abrupt)** [Final Collapse: After last line, cut all instruments; leave 5 seconds of silence—abrupt, unresolved.] Under I slip— Slip into Nothing *(song ends, no resolution)* ---
