TIME TO GET DRY Sand swirls on marble Static in my head Horizon full of weather Pressure vows a mess A rumble in the distance An ache in the wound Moon rises on the water Calling out, “it’s coming soon” I was carved from a cliffside During ancient storms Winter-cold structure With a heart running warm The courts kept demanding A queen made of grace While floodwater gathered Behind my stone face All the gold on my shoulders Couldn’t dam the swell The bells in the steeple Were clanging as I fell A breath turned to silence My knees kissed the foam Stone transforming into scales And the sea called me home Crown slipped off in the current Hair grew long, trailing in the sea All my secrets grew fins there Every crack in my stone learned to breathe My head goes under When the tide gets high Feelings start rising So the queen’s gotta dive Down where the dark keeps A fire alive Sea witch in the water With the pain in her eyes Nobody hears me when I cry Below all these shipwrecks Past ropes and past bones I swam through a deep No sailor had known The eels made me a lantern Kelp braided my name The trench opened wider And sang in bubbled flame There in the black sand Where the oldest memories sleep I found the red heartbeat Under miles of deep Lava sang softly Through a cradle of stone My sorrow grew steady As the power came home A mirror could not follow No witness could pry I held this whole ocean With the salt in my eyes My head goes under When the tide gets high Feelings start rising So the queen’s gotta dive Down where the dark keeps A fire alive Sea witch in the water For such a long time Time to get dry Time to get dry A hand on the granite Step up through clay Shoulders brush limestone Light expands into day Time to get dry I won’t dissolve in the sea Soaked to the bone Step by step I rise back to my throne My head goes under When the tide gets high Feelings start rising So the queen’s gotta dive Down where the dark keeps A fire alive Sea witch in the water With the future in her eyes Time to get dry (Time to get dry) My head comes up now Dripping wet in the light Stone skin shining From the Black Tide fight Sea at my ankles As I scream to the sky Time to get dry |COPYRIGHT / CREATION DISCLOSURE| |“Time to Get Dry” was created from an original concept, hook, theme, imagery, and creative direction provided by the human author. ChatGPT assisted in developing, arranging, and refining the lyrics, structure, poetic language, and production-oriented song framework based on the author’s instructions. Human authorship includes the central Siren Queen concept, emotional arc, original hook foundation, mythic ocean/stone/fire symbolism, and final creative selection. Suno was used as part of the songcraft and production process, including the use of two original vocal recordings provided by the human author. These recordings contributed to the vocal direction, performance identity, and generated musical output. AI tools were used collaboratively for drafting, editing, arrangement support, vocal-informed generation, and production exploration.|
