[Intro - Cello Arco Drone / Pizzicato Violin Drips] (Low bow drag...) [violin: sul tasto, natural harmonics] (Drip-ling... drip-a-ling...) [violin: light left-hand pizzicato] [Deep Breath Layer] (Haahhh... hmmm...) [violin: sul tasto long bow] (Pluck... pluck-drip...) [violin: Bartók pizzicato] [Verse 1 - Whispered] Underneath the pressure line Where the light forgets to shine Salt and cold and ancient weight Nothing here is running late [violin: sul ponticello tremolo; ricochet fills] I don't need the surface air I live in what you wouldn't dare Fathoms down the current bends That's where everything begins [violin: double-stops, portamento into high register] [Pre-Chorus] The water holds me like a fist (Hold... hold...) [violin: tremolo sul ponticello] And I have never once been missed By the world above the mist [violin: martelé accents; artificial harmonic on end] [Spoken Word] Down here... there are no echoes. Only pressure. 3... 2... 1... DIVE. [violin: behind-the-bridge shimmer on "DIVE"] [Chorus - Anthem] Pull me under let me go Where the frozen rivers flow (Rivers flow!) Feel the current feel the weight I don't need to resurface - I am great! [violin: spiccato on "flow"; sul G high-run] Violin cuts the black apart Cello beating like a heart (Like a heart!) I am water I am stone I am never - ever - alone [violin: bowed harmonics sustain] [Instrumental Drop] (WUB-WUB-WUUUB-BWAAAH-KAH!) [violin: sautillé runs; col legno hits] (Vreeeee-EEEE-EEH-CHKK!) [violin: portamento gliss to high E; artificial harmonics] [Verse 2 - Melodic] Bioluminescent fire Every creature going higher In the dark you make your own Every color on your own [violin: spiccato triplets; sul tasto counterline] Cello holding down the floor Violin is asking more No horizon here to chase Just the current and the space [violin: double-stops; behind-the-bridge shimmer] [Pre-Chorus - Rise] The water holds me like a fist (Hold... HOLD!) [violin: tremolo then sul tasto release] And I have never once been missed By the world above the mist [Spoken Command] Break the surface! BREAK IT DOWN! [violin: col legno roll into ricochet flourish] [Bridge - Oceanic] I am the tide I am the trench I am the cold that nothing can quench I am the dark I am the glow I am the thing the deep currents know [violin: bowed harmonics, behind-the-bridge tones] [Build] (Bmm-ts... BMM-TS!) [violin: accelerating sautillé] (Cello: THUMP - THUMP!) [violin: portamento scream to sul G] [Drop - silence - then] (WUUUUUB - KAH!) [violin: ricochet burst into harmonic] [Chorus - Full] Pull me under let me go Where the frozen rivers flow Feel the current feel the weight I don't need to resurface - I am great! Violin cuts the black apart Cello beating like a heart I am water I am stone I am never - ever - alone [violin: layered harmonics and high double-stops] [Outro - Decrescendo] No ocean is empty. No depth is silent. Listen. [violin: natural harmonics; Bartók pizzicato; sul tasto fade]
