[INTRO — SPOKEN] Everything looks clean from the surface. That’s what the surface is for. [VERSE 1] The surface is crowded With mouths moving fast, Everybody polishing A presentable mask. Sunlight makes promises The water won’t keep. Truth changes pressure When you take it down deep. I stood at the edge Where reflections run out, Dropped every answer I had borrowed from doubt. No monster came rising. No angel appeared. Just my own voice asking: “How far will you go from here?” [PRE-CHORUS] No map in my pocket. No rope around my waist. The deep never called me— I called it by name. [CHORUS] I’m going into the deep, Where the names can’t reach, Where the things I buried Have been learning how to speak. No light but what I carry. No truth comes back cheap. If I want to know what lives in me, I’ve gotta go— Into the deep. Down past what I show. Down where I don’t know. Into the deep. [VERSE 2] First came the guilt That was never really mine. Then the borrowed beliefs I had mistaken for a spine. I found a thousand fingerprints Inside my point of view— So I asked which thoughts belonged to me. The silence answered: “Few.” Voices of the absent Were still giving me commands. Old fears held the compass. Old shame drew the land. The deeper that I traveled, The less I knew my face— But masks require light, And darkness gave them no place. [PRE-CHORUS] The pressure kept increasing. The noise began to fade. Everything constructed Started giving way. [CHORUS] I’m going into the deep, Where the names can’t reach, Where the things I buried Have been learning how to speak. No light but what I carry. No truth comes back cheap. If I want to know what lives in me, I’ve gotta go— Into the deep. Down past what I show. Down where I don’t know. Into the deep. [BRIDGE — SPOKEN/RAPPED] Pressure isn’t evil. It only tests what’s hollow. Some things get crushed. Some things finally hold. I didn’t come for treasure. I didn’t come for proof. I came to meet the animal Still breathing in the suit. There were no gods waiting. No devils down below. Only everything I carried And refused to let go. So I opened both my hands. And watched it all sink. [BREAKDOWN] Down here, nothing floats. Nothing performs. Nothing begs permission To become what it is. I thought the deep would swallow me. It swallowed the disguise. [FINAL CHORUS] I went into the deep, Where the names couldn’t reach, And the things I had buried Finally started teaching me. I didn’t kill the darkness. It taught my eyes to see. I won’t come back unbroken— I’ll come back knowing Where I break And what survives beneath. Into the deep. Down past what I show. Down where I finally know. Into the deep. [OUTRO — SPOKEN] “How deep does it go?” As deep as the lie. “How do you know when you’ve reached it?” When there’s nowhere left to hide.
