Track 1

Tempo: Slow, sensual, and heavy (approx. 65 BPM)

Style: Dark R&B ballad (similar to Jhené Aiko, Summer Walker, or H.E.R.)Tempo: Slow, sensual, and heavy (approx. 65 BPM)

Style: Dark R&B ballad (similar to Jhené Aiko, Summer Walker, or H.E.R.)Verse 1

Step out of the car, standing in the driveway

Wondering how your touch always gets the best of me

I look at my reflection, I don’t even know her face

You treat me like a queen, then you lock me in a cage

My friends say I’m drowning, but I tell 'em I’m fine

Trading my oxygen just to buy a little time

You’re a beautiful anchor, and I’m holding the chain

Finding comfort in the wreckage, getting used to the pain

Pre-Chorus

'Cause every time I try to run to the surface

You pull me right back down, make me feel like I deserve it

You whisper you love me, and it sounds so sweet

But I’m losing my air while I'm at your feet

Chorus

Loving you is like breathing water

Being with you like breathing water

Pulling me down...

Yeah, you're pulling me down

I'm dying to stay, but I’m losing my mind

In the deep end of you, leaving safety behind

Loving you is like breathing water

Verse 2

You love to watch me gasp, then you hand me a glass

Of the same exact poison that you poured in the past

Clever with your words, yeah, you're a lyrical thief

Stealing the rhythm right out of my grief

I used to be a fire, now I'm just a cold stream

Losing my identity inside of your dream

It’s a twisted psychology, a beautiful crime

How you make me feel guilty for your lack of design

Pre-Chorus

And every time I try to run to the surface

You pull me right back down, make me feel like I deserve it

You whisper you love me, and it sounds so sweet

But I’m losing my air while I'm at your feet

Chorus

Loving you is like breathing water

Being with you like breathing water

Pulling me down...

Yeah, you're pulling me down

I'm dying to stay, but I’m losing my mind

In the deep end of you, leaving safety behind

Loving you is like breathing water

Bridge

(Music swells, heavy bass drops out, leaving just a lonely piano and vocal)

They ask me why I don't just swim away...

But how do you leave when the ocean is all you know?

You’re my habit, my vice, my beautiful low.

I’m suffocating... but your current is so warm.

I’d rather die in your sea than survive in the storm.

Guitar / Saxophone Solo

(An emotional, weeping solo that captures the heartbreak and tension)

Chorus

Loving you is like breathing water

Being with you like breathing water

Pulling me down...

Yeah, you're pulling me down

I'm dying to stay, but I’m losing my mind

In the deep end of you, leaving safety behind

Loving you is like breathing water

Outro

(Vocal ad-libs fading out)

Just pulling me down...

Can't catch my breath...

But I don't want to leave the water yet.

Yeah...

(Heavy, echoing water droplet sound to close the track)