Updated 12/14.

Mixed pell has autotune to D Minor.

Fully mixed track on BandCamp.

Highly triggering : Death, drowning, thalassophobia

This was inspired only by a beat by Yung Nab, it is an experiment in storytelling.

This song is about a sailor drowning at sea, the year is unspecified the “strake” does require a wooden ship.

I wanted to capture the terror, the struggle, the regrets and physical feelings associated with this topic.

It is not a coded call for help. But you are right, if you did, to suspect so in general. Artists / musicians who suddenly make “drowning” themed work may be suffering from severe depression, check in with your friends.

Freesound.org sounds used:

I included two modified versions of two of these sounds, but kept the file name for tracking purposes. The sounds are timed and EQd to the pell.

https://freesound.org/people/DNZ/sounds/645967/
https://freesound.org/people/davidhrivnak/sounds/202870/
https://freesound.org/people/Shark_Anthony/sounds/468899/
https://freesound.org/people/electronixtech/sounds/57942/
https://freesound.org/people/freemaster2/sounds/690321/
https://freesound.org/people/GirlWithSoundRecorder/sounds/441008/

Quote:
Barely afloat, barely afloat,
Barely afloat, barely afloat,
Barely afloat, barely afloat,
Barely afloat, barely afloat,

The waves are a tower pushing me under
The Rush of the wind and the crash of thunder
There’s no light underneath this doomed sky
except the moon and it’s ghastly blue eye

I’m feeling tired my arms feels like irons
Freezing cold water burns like a pyre
I’m under again and I’m rolling and rolling
Holding my breath holding and holding

all I feel is the weight pulling me down and uh
all I feel is the weight pulling me down and uh
all I feel is the weight pulling me down and uh
all I feel is the weight pulling me

nothing to cling to nothing to hold on
struggling to breath and feeling frozen
No sense of direction no sense of heading
tall water cresting I’m barely treading

The crew is lost they went down with ship
When the strake snapped death closed in quick
Some went by the mast and others by the waves
the last one swimming no one will save

all I feel is the weight pulling me down and uh
all I feel is the weight pulling me down and uh
all I feel is the weight pulling me down and uh
all I feel is the weight pulling me down

I pray for the child that I won’t see
Underneath the shade of an ungrown tree
The last will of a man who cannot grab a pen
Swim and gasp again, swim and gasp again

Darkness comes for me, pour a cup for me
Curse my destiny selkies calling me
I can’t fight back. I feel broken.
Feel like jetsam. Feel like floatsam.

all I feel is the weight pulling me down and uh
all I feel is the weight pulling me down and uh
all I feel is the weight pulling me down and uh
all I feel is the weight pulling me down
pulling me down, pulling me down,
all I feel is the weight pulling me down,
pulling me down, pulling me down,
all I feel is the weight pulling me down,
down,
down,
down,
down,
down,
down,
down,
down,

"Drowning"
by coruscate

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