What I Left Below

{distant whisper} You heard me Now come find me I’ve been waiting

Where you left me {submerged piano chords,

sonar-like sub-bass}

I followed breathing through the walls Past broken lights and flooded halls

The deeper that the pathway wound The more your voice became my

sound I found a door beneath the stone Marked with a name

that was my own Behind the glass,

beneath the tide A shape like me opened its eyes {slow heartbeat

kick, sparse rim clicks}

Who are you?

{airy controlled vocal} You already know

{distant lower-pitched voice} Why are you here?

{airy controlled vocal} You left me below

{distant lower-pitched

voice} {subtle string swell} You left me below

Where the light couldn’t reach

With the words you swallowed And the hurt you couldn’t speak You

left me below

So the rest of you could go

But everything you buried Stayed alive beneath the cold You left me

You left me

You left me below {heavy dream-rock explosion,

distorted guitars} The chamber shook,

the water climbed You wore an older face of mine Your hands

were marked by every door I closed and never opened anymore

You said, “I carried what you lost While you escaped without the

cost You learned to live,

but left with me The part of you that used to feel”

{tense electronic

percussion, deep bass}

What do you

want? {airy controlled vocal} What you took when you ran {distant lower-pitched

voice} How do I free you?

{airy controlled vocal} Reach out your hand {distant lower-pitched voice} {heavy string

riser}

I said, “I’m sorry”

You said, “That’s not enough”

I said, “I survived” You said,

“Then why are you still lost?”

The water reached my mouth The whole room started turning

You held your hand against the glass And every buried light started

burning {massive dynamic build,

soaring strings, thunderous toms} Break the glass Let me through If I

drown So do you Take my hand Share the weight Bring me

back

Before it’s too late

{sudden drop to sub-bass,

metallic

echoes}

I left you below

Where the light couldn’t reach With the words I swallowed

And the hurt I couldn’t speak

I left you below So the rest of me could go Now

everything I buried Is the only way back home

I left you

I found you I won’t leave you below {unprecedented emotional peak,

voices merge perfectly} I reached into the darkness— {sudden silence except for

water hum} And something took my hand {single heavy piano note,

long fade}