Black Water
Two people watching the same moon from opposite sides of an ocean that used to be a room. The only song here where the other person answers back, and she does not agree.

Lyrics
Verse 1 - Male Vocal
City bleeding through the curtains
Silver lines across your face
Two cups cooling on the counter
Like they're waiting in our place
Every word became an anchor
Every silence pulled a chain
We kept throwing stones at mirrors
Then got angry when they changed
Now your shadow leaves before you
Mine still circles where you stood
And the room keeps getting wider
Like the ocean says it should
Pre-Chorus - Male Vocal
Same moon above us
Different tide below
I can see your light from here
But there's nowhere left to go
Chorus - Female Vocal - Japanese
海の向こう側
声を探してる
揺れている灯り
今も見つめてる
怒りも涙も
波に預けてる
夜が明けるまで
ただ波を見てる
Post-Chorus - Male Vocal
Same moon
Different shore
I see your light
Nothing more
Verse 2 - Male Vocal
We drew maps across the wreckage
Marked the places we were right
Built a harbor out of reasons
Then set every dock alight
You kept storms behind your eyelids
I kept thunder in my throat
Both of us were taking water
Still pretending we could float
There are things beneath the surface
That I never learned to name
Every time the tide goes out
They wash up on the sand again
Pre-Chorus - Male Vocal
Same moon above us
Different tide below
Your silhouette is getting small
But I still watch it go
Chorus - Female Vocal - Japanese
海の向こう側
声を探してる
揺れている灯り
今も見つめてる
怒りも涙も
波に預けてる
夜が明けるまで
ただ波を見てる
Post-Chorus - Male Vocal
Same moon
Different shore
Still your light
Through the storm
Break - Fractured Beat
[Male Rap]
You say I made the water rise
Like you were standing somewhere dry
Like every wave came from my side
Like yours just happened to arrive
I heard you leaving in the quiet
Long before you touched the door
So don't tell me I imagined
What the silence turned us into
[Female Vocal - Japanese]
今さら何を言うの
ずっと待ってた
[Male Vocal]
I was drowning too.
[Female Vocal - Japanese]
沈めてない
私はただ待ってた
[Male Vocal]
I know.
[Female Vocal - Japanese]
じゃあ
なぜなの
[Break]
[Male Vocal]
I don't know.
Breakdown - Male Scream
WE KEPT FIRING FROM THE SHORELINE
AT A SHIP WE BOTH WERE ON
BURNED THE SAILS TO WIN THE ARGUMENT
THEN WONDERED WHY THEY'RE GONE
I CAN STILL SEE YOUR LIGHT
THROUGH EVERYTHING WE TURNED TO SMOKE
BUT THERE'S AN OCEAN IN THE ROOM NOW
AND NEITHER OF US KNOWS
HOW TO CROSS IT
Bridge - Female Vocal - Japanese
嫌いになれたら
海も浅いのに
忘れられたら
夜は短くて
残った灯りが
波間で揺れてる
消えてほしいのに
目をそらせない
Bridge Response - Male Vocal - Spoken
Maybe some things don't sink.
Maybe they just drift
far enough away
to stop being ours.
Final Chorus - Female Vocal - Japanese - Powerful
海の向こう側
声を探してる
消えそうな灯り
今も見つめてる
戻れない岸に
朝が近づいて
言えなかったこと
波に残してる
Male Response - Rising
Same moon above us
Black water below
Your light gets smaller
But it never goes
Final Chorus - Female Vocal - Higher
海の向こう側
まだ灯りがある
朝が来るまでは
ただ波を見てる
[Male Vocal]
We were one coastline
Before the water came
[Female Vocal - Sustained]
海の向こうで
[Male Scream]
I CAN STILL SEE YOU!
Outro - Female Vocal - Distant
同じ月を見てる
[Male Vocal]
Yeah.
[Female Vocal]
それでいい
[Final Pulse]
Song sheet
How the track is built.
- 132 BPM
- 132 BPM, straight, choruses floating in halftime, double kick in the breakdown
- minor and tidal, aching, never resolving
- nearness ↔ unreachability
- two people watching the same moon across an ocean that used to be a room
- the two voices alternate for the whole song and only overlap in the final section
- close male vocal, restrained, conversational
- soaring female vocal sung in Japanese, wide and unpolished
- male screams in the breakdown and one final cry, nowhere else
- clean tremolo lines, one wall of distortion in the breakdown
- submerged synth pulse, sonar blips, tape hiss, deep sub