Ocean Haze

{aggressive attack, natural

cracks, chest voice, 808 floor pulse,

heavy bass, acoustic slap,

shoegaze guitar blooms}

Still breathing.

Still here. Right now.

"Broken," someone said. But I'm breathing right here.

Something deeper. Cuts harder than truth.

Made it through. Or just ended here.

Now.

Right here. Behind the wreckage.

Of what I held.

Craving. Scraping. {close-mic vocals,

clipped phrasing, fragile instability,

behind-the-beat bass, steady drums,

muted acoustic rhythm, floating shoegaze} Just say whatever.

Laugh like it's all the same.

Inside the veins. Flow turns to chaos.

Grit. Scraped off. Noise.

Still holding.

{restrained vocal tension, bass holds groove,

tremolo guitar widens} This quiet end.

I call it living.

Still hearing it.

Deep inside.

I'm still here. I didn't disappear.

Ache. Lost. Blind.

Misled by desire.

Once it comes true.

It's over.

Whose words were those.

{full vocal projection, emotional natural cracks,

driving bass, strong kick,

rhythmic acoustic, full shoegaze wall}

Still breathing.

Still here.

I'm still here.

Misled by desire.

Now right here.

Again. Right here. Again.

Again.

Right here. {mantra-like repetitive vocals,

locked rhythmic groove, ambient feedback

loop}

Turning grief.

Into something.

Noise all around.

Wanting more. Freedom.

Just a sound. Ringing.

Ringing. Ringing. Again. Accept it all.

Come back here. {dry intimate vocals,

electronic sub-pulse, steady organic groove}

Don't want to hear it.

But it's there. Inside the veins.

Flow turns to chaos.

Misled by desire.

Now right here.

Again.

Right here. Again.

Right here. {detached spoken-word vocals,

low-pass filtered pulse, widening shoegaze layers} Still breathing.

Still taking air. Still hearing it.

Deep inside. Now. Right here.

Again. Right here. {quiet exhausted vocals,

heartbeat bass pulse, sparse acoustic guitar,

ambient soundscape} Survival.

Or decay.

If I'm broken.

Leave it like that.

I'm still here. Not gone yet.

Breathe in fragments. Keep breathing.

Still standing.

Now. Right here. Again.

Right here. Misled by desire.

{maximum vocal projection, heavy emotional cracks,

massive overdriven guitar wall,

strongest rhythm groove} Still breathing.

Still here. The sound is deafening.

But I'm already gone.

Now right here. Again right here.

Destroy it all. Or let it fade.

{exhausted fading vocals, dissolving rhythm groove,

lingering guitar feedback,

ambient trails}