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Sailing under sheets of rain
The waves crashing inside my brain
A gray horizon lies below
The oceans pulling undertow

Swallowed by the silence of a watery abyss
Save me
I'm drowning
Beneath the silt
I'm sinking
Beneath the silt

Clouds of ashen paint the sky
A black fog forces down the eyes
A casket floating out from shore
Depression closer evermore

Swallowed by the silence of a watery abyss
Save me
I'm drowning
Beneath the silt
I'm sinking
Beneath

Climbing the walls
Climbing the walls
Climbing the walls
Climbing the walls

Beneath the silt
Beneath the silt
Beneath the silt
Beneath the silt

Swallowed by the silence of the watery abyss
Saved but
I’m swallowed by the silence of
And grasping at the skies above

I'm drowning
Beneath the silt
I'm sinking
Beneath the silt
I'm drowning
Beneath the silt
I'm sinking
Beneath the silt
Beneath the silt

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ab0ve On Nov 11, 2014

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by Kingofstilport

2m ago

This song is about feeling the heavy pressure of life weighing down on you, pushing you down further than even silt; Silt being the dust or soil that lies on the surface of the ocean floor. When you're buried beneath the silt, so to speak, you are in a place of darkness and despair that's suffocating. You want to breathe, but you're drowning in pressure and sorrow.

Song Meaning

Negative

Subjective

Sadness

Pressure

Despair

Suffocation

Darkness

Drowning

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by clorox1000

9y ago

i think this song is describing the thoughts of a man who is slowly drowning and is struggling to reach for the surface something like that maybe.

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