Black Pearl in the Deep II

Intro

Fathom by fathom, the light gives it up

Somewhere below you, the water goes quiet

Verse 1

I count the fathoms, pressure tight on my chest

Twenty, then thirty, the cold takes the rest

Somewhere below, you chose to hide

Wearing the water like armor, like pride

I fight the current pulling me toward the light

Push through it deeper, sink into the night

The wreck holds your shape but won't let you show

I swim through the space where your outline should go

Pre-Chorus

Closer now, I can feel the weight shift

A curve in the wreck, only starting to drift

Reach out and the water just folds you away

Deeper you go, the less I can stay

Chorus

Black pearl in the deep

(in the deep)

You don't wanna be found, no

I keep going under

(under, under)

Where the drop gets too steep

Verse 2

You lock every door and still call it your keep

Every wall you put up runs twice as deep

I trace the outline where your fingers once played

A ghost in the wreckage, a game that you made

You want to be sought, but you don't want to lose

You laugh behind glass, an echo I choose

The deeper I go, the more I feel small

Like the depth was never the wall at all

Pre-Chorus

Closer still and the weight feels wrong

Like the deeper I dive, the longer you're gone

Reach out and my hand just closes on nothing

But I go anyway, call it foolish, call it something

Chorus

Black pearl in the deep

(in the deep)

You don't wanna be found, no

I keep going under

(under, under)

Where the drop gets too steep

Bridge

Maybe you're not lost — maybe you're free

The depth was a door and you swallowed the key

Not mine to open, not mine to save

Just a wall dressed up as a wave

Chorus

Black pearl in the deep

(in the deep)

You don't wanna be found, no

I keep going under

(under, under)

Where the drop gets too steep

Outro

Fathom by fathom, I stop counting what my lungs can take

Leave the wreck where it lies, let the water keep the rest

Somewhere down there you're keeping your place

A pearl I was never meant to embrace

Spoken

"Created by DarkPrincess -- Royalty of the night"