song: Neon Heartbeat

artist: Synthwave Collective

genre: Pop

lyric_line: I saw your light through the pouring rain / A neon signal cutting through the pain

mood: hopeful

colors: pink cyan

composition: wide establishing shot

camera: slow dolly in

description: Rain-slicked streets reflect neon signs in puddles. A lone figure stands under a flickering marquee, face half-lit by pink and cyan fluorescence.


lyric_line: We're dancing on the edge of something real / The bass drops low and I can finally feel

mood: euphoric

colors:
neon pink
electric blue
white

composition: medium close-up

camera: handheld follow

description: Crowded dance floor, bodies moving in synchronized abandon. Laser beams cut through haze as the drop hits.


lyric_line: Spin me faster through the galaxy / Every atom screaming you and me

colors:
gold
hot pink
silver

composition: dynamic tracking

camera: steady tracking

description: Cosmic visualization—two figures spin in zero gravity surrounded by stardust trails and holographic constellations.


lyric_line: The morning comes like an unpaid debt / The glow sticks fade but I don't forget

mood: bittersweet

colors: purple grey

composition: static intimate

camera: locked off

description: Empty warehouse at dawn. Discarded glow sticks scatter the floor like fallen stars. One person sits against the wall, head in hands.


lyric_line: Sitting in the car with the engine off / Replaying every word, every laugh, every cough

mood: reflective

colors:
midnight blue
soft gold

composition: low angle

camera: crane up

description: Interior car scene, dashboard glow illuminating tired eyes. Rain streaks the windshield. A cassette tape hangs from the rearview.


lyric_line: Your silhouette against the vending machine glow / The only currency I want to know

mood: tender

colors: amber magenta

composition: extreme close-up

camera: push in

description: Late-night convenience store. Fluorescent hum. Two people share a candy bar, laughter echoing off linoleum tiles.


lyric_line: Radio static, your voice cuts through / Telling me things I already knew

mood: intimate

colors:
steel blue
pale yellow

composition: overhead

camera: whip pan

description: Bedroom at 2 AM. Radio dial glows amber. One person lies on their back, phone pressed to ear, staring at ceiling cracks.


lyric_line: Streetlights blur like watercolor tears / We've been running from our fears for years

mood: nostalgic

colors: violet teal

composition: two-shot

camera: steadicam orbit

description: Rain-blurred windshield, streetlights smearing like wet paint. Hands grip steering wheel at ten and two, knuckles white.


lyric_line: Hold my hand till the sunrise breaks / Promise me this is not a mistake

mood: yearning

colors: coral indigo

composition: profile

camera: rack focus

description: Rooftop at sunrise. Two silhouettes against a gradient sky. City skyline behind them, steam rising from coffee cups.


lyric_line: The city exhales and we exhale too / Neon heartbeat, me and you

mood: peaceful

colors:
rose
sky blue

composition: aerial

camera: drone pull-back

description: Wide cityscape at dawn. Neon signs flicker off one by one. Two figures walk away from camera down an empty boulevard.


song: Sugar Wounds

artist: Candy Knife

lyric_line: You taste like summer but you leave like winter / Sweet on the tongue, then the frost sets in

colors:
candy pink
ice blue

composition: close-up

camera: slow push in

description: Close-up of lips touching a popsicle, summer light streaming through window blinds. Ice crystals melting on warm skin.


lyric_line: I keep your letters in a mason jar / Every word a sugar-coated scar

mood: melancholic

colors:
pastel yellow
dusty rose

composition: medium shot

camera: static

description: Hands placing folded letters into a glass jar on a shelf. Dust motes dance in afternoon light.


lyric_line: The carnival left town but I'm still here / Riding the Ferris wheel of fear

mood: anxious

colors:
rust
faded teal

composition: wide shot

camera: gentle zoom

description: Abandoned carnival at dusk. A lone Ferris wheel car sways in wind. Ticket stubs scatter across dirt.


lyric_line: Cotton candy dreams dissolve in rain / Sticky fingers, nothing to gain

mood: defeated

colors: lavender grey

composition: intimate two-shot

description: Rain dissolving cotton candy on a stick. Sticky rivulets run down a child's arm. Tears mix with rain.


lyric_line: You called me darling then you called me gone / Left me humming the same old song

mood: lonely

colors:
sepia
burnt orange

camera: handheld subtle

description: Empty hallway, one coat still on the hook. Shoes by the door. A phone buzzes unanswered on the table.


lyric_line: Baking cookies at 3 AM / Pretending you're coming home again

colors:
warm amber
cream

composition: over-the-shoulder

camera: crane down

description: Kitchen at night. Flour dusts the counter. One person shapes dough alone, radio playing static.


lyric_line: The recipe says two cups of trust / I measured wrong and now it's dust

mood: resigned

colors:
charcoal
pale peach

composition: high angle

camera: dolly out

description: Measuring cups tipped over on tile. A broken eggshell. Crumbs scattered like promises.


lyric_line: Pinwheel spinning in the garden bed / Childhood wishes, long since dead

mood: wistful

colors:
sunbleached red
mint green

camera: pan across

description: Garden at golden hour. A pinwheel spins lazily. Overgrown grass whispers against a rusted swing set.


lyric_line: I wear your sweater like armor now / Too big, too warm, too full of how

mood: guarded

colors: oatmeal cranberry

camera: tilt down

description: Oversized sweater sleeves covering hands. One person hugs themselves, looking out rain-streaked glass.


lyric_line: Sugar wounds don't bleed, they ache / A cavity where love used to bake

mood: aching

colors: vanilla ash

composition: silhouette

camera: pull focus

description: Empty baking sheet in an empty oven. Timer dings. No one comes to check.


song: Parallel Lines

artist: Geometry Club

lyric_line: We walk the same street but opposite sides / Measured distance, parallel lives

mood: longing

colors:
graphite
pale blue

composition: split frame

camera: static split

description: Split screen: two figures walking the same street, separated by a yellow line. Rain falls on one side, sun on the other.


lyric_line: Your window faces mine across the alley / I count the seconds till your light goes daily

mood: observational

colors:
warm white
shadow grey

composition: deep focus

camera: slow pan

description: Opposite apartment windows at night. Two silhouettes brush teeth in sync, separated by brick and glass.


lyric_line: Same train, different cars, same destination / Silent calculation, endless hesitation

colors:
burnt sienna
slate

composition: symmetrical

camera: dolly parallel

description: Train platform. Two figures board different cars of the same train. Hands press against windows, never aligned.


lyric_line: The geometry of almost touching / Close enough to feel the air rushing

mood: frustrated

colors:
silver
dusty pink

composition: asymmetrical

camera: zoom

description: Close-up of two hands almost touching, separated by a thin glass partition. Breath fogging the surface.


lyric_line: You order coffee the way I would / If I had the nerve to stand where you stood

mood: timid

colors: espresso cream

composition: wide

camera: whip pan

description: Coffee shop queue. One person watches another order. Steam rises between them like a curtain.


lyric_line: Two shadows on the pavement never meet / A mathematician's defeat

colors: charcoal amber

composition: extreme wide

camera: tracking

description: Aerial shot of two shadows on pavement, walking parallel. The sun sets, stretching them impossibly long.


lyric_line: I drew a line from my heart to yours / It went on forever, never reached the door

mood: hopeful

colors: navy copper

composition: overhead

camera: crane up

description: Hand drawing a line on paper with a ruler. The pencil lead snaps at the edge of the page.


lyric_line: Same playlist, same headphones, different ears / Soundtrack to twenty-seven years

colors:
black
neon green

camera: tilt

description: Two people on a bench, headphones in, eyes closed. A leaf falls between them. Neither moves.


lyric_line: The map says we're zero miles apart / But zero's just a fancy way to say 'apart'

colors:
white
pale gold

composition: mirror shot

camera: mirror glide

description: Map spread on a table. Two pins, zero distance apart. A finger traces the gap, again and again.


lyric_line: Parallel lines at infinity / Maybe there is where you'll wait for me

mood: transcendent

colors:
indigo
starlight white

camera: fade to white

description: Two lines of light converging at a vanishing point. A figure stands at the intersection, arms open.


song: Glass House

artist: Transparent

lyric_line: Everyone can see what we're not saying / The glass walls amplify the silence

mood: tense

colors:
clear
pale grey

camera: static observe

description: Modernist glass house at twilight. Two figures sit in silence at opposite ends of a long table, fully visible to the outside world.


lyric_line: Throwing stones from inside the frame / We're the exhibit, we're the game

mood: claustrophobic

colors: silver white

composition: fish-eye

camera: dolly zoom

description: Fish-eye lens: a figure stands in a room of mirrors, surrounded by infinite reflections. Stones in hand, hesitating.


lyric_line: Dinner at eight, the neighbors watch / Every fork, every sip, every botched

mood: performative

colors: bone chrome

composition: reflected

camera: mirror pan

description: Voyeuristic shot from outside: neighbors watch through binoculars as a couple eats dinner. Every gesture is staged.


lyric_line: Smile for the camera, smile for the crowd / Smile till the cracks get too loud

mood: desperate

colors: porcelain charcoal

composition: framed

camera: through-glass

description: Close-up of a forced smile, cracks spiderwebbing across porcelain skin. The smile stays but the eyes betray.


lyric_line: I swept the shards beneath the rug / But glass shines through, no matter what

mood: anxious

colors: frost steel

composition: voyeuristic

camera: peeping tom

description: Rug lifted slightly, revealing glittering glass shards underneath. A hand reaches to smooth the rug back down.


lyric_line: The thermostat's set to 'pretend' / Comfortable lies with a dividend

colors: ivory smoke

composition: intimate

camera: rack focus

description: Hallway of mirrors. Seven reflections of the same person walk in imperfect sync. The real one stops; reflections continue.


lyric_line: Your reflection multiplies in the hall / Seven versions of you, none of them real at all

mood: surreal

colors: mirror shadow

composition: distorted

camera: kaleidoscope spin

description: Glass palace interior. Fossils embedded in translucent walls. Two small figures wander like museum visitors in their own home.


lyric_line: We built this palace out of pride / Now we're just fossils trapped inside

mood: trapped

colors:
glass green
pale amber

camera: crane down

description: A bird's eye view of a glass roof. A small bird lies stunned on the surface. A hand presses against the glass from below.


lyric_line: A bird flew straight into the pane / I felt the vibration, I felt the pain

mood: empathetic

colors:
feather white
blood red

composition: close-up

camera: slow motion

description: Slow motion: a hammer swings toward a glass wall. The moment of impact suspended, fractures beginning to bloom.


lyric_line: Let's break a window, let the air in / Better to bleed than to live in sin

mood: liberating

colors:
sky blue
shattered crystal

composition: liberation wide

camera: explosive pull-back

description: Explosion of glass outward. Sunlight floods in. Two figures stand in the center, arms raised, bleeding and laughing.


song: Summer Static

artist: Beach Fossil

lyric_line: The radio hisses between the stations / Your voice cuts through like irrigation

mood: nostalgic

colors:
sunbleached yellow
ocean blue

composition: wide beach

camera: slow drift

description: Beach at noon. A transistor radio hisses on a towel. A foot taps in the sand. Overexposed sky, bleached colors.


lyric_line: Sand in the sheets, salt in the hair / We didn't go anywhere but we were there

mood: lazy

colors:
sand
salt white

camera: static lazy

description: Interior of a beach shack. Sand covers the floor like carpet. Two people lie on a bed, staring at a cracked ceiling.


lyric_line: Popsicle sticks stacked like little bones / Monument to days without phones

mood: playful

colors:
popsicle orange
stick brown

composition: macro

camera: macro focus

description: Close-up of popsicle sticks arranged in a tiny cairn on a picnic table. Melted juice stains the wood.


lyric_line: Your tan line tells a story I can't read / A paperback abandoned in the weeds

mood: curious

colors:
tan
paperback yellow

composition: environmental

camera: wide still

description: Overgrown weeds swallowing a discarded paperback. A tan line on an arm reaches for it, then withdraws.


lyric_line: Fireflies in a mason jar / Released too soon, didn't get far

mood: bittersweet

colors:
jar glass
firefly gold

camera: handheld memory

description: Hands holding a mason jar of fireflies. The lid unscrews. Golden insects spiral upward into darkening air.


lyric_line: The boardwalk creaks with memories / Of people we were, people we'll never be

mood: melancholic

colors:
weathered wood
sunset pink

composition: establishing

camera: crane over

description: Boardwalk at dusk. Empty rides creak in wind. One person walks the planks, dragging fingers along railings.


lyric_line: Static on the line, then your laugh / Half a conversation, broken in half

mood: fragmented

colors:
static grey
laughter pink

composition: fragmented

camera: glitch cut

description: Phone screen showing a call in progress. Static waveform dances. A laugh crackles through, half-caught.


lyric_line: We buried a time capsule in the dune / Marked it with a plastic spoon

mood: hopeful

colors:
dune beige
plastic red

composition: nostalgic

camera: dune slide

description: Dune at sunset. Two figures kneel, burying a shoebox. A plastic spoon marks the spot like a flag.


lyric_line: The ice cream truck plays a funeral dirge / Summer's over, nothing left to purge

mood: resigned

colors:
ice cream white
truck chrome

composition: symbolic

camera: tracking truck

description: Ice cream truck parked in empty lot. Speaker plays distorted music. One person leans against it, eyes closed.


lyric_line: I'll meet you where the static ends / Where the signal clears and the heart mends

mood: optimistic

colors:
clear sky
signal green

composition: horizon

camera: fade to clear

description: Horizon line where sea meets sky. Static dissolves into clear blue. Two figures walk toward the water, hand in hand.


song: Midnight Algorithm

artist: Digital Native

lyric_line: Scrolling through your life at 3 AM / Liking moments I'll never touch again

mood: isolated

colors:
screen blue
black

composition: screen reflection

camera: static glow

description: Face illuminated by phone screen in total darkness. Scroll thumb moves endlessly. Reflection in the glass shows tired eyes.


lyric_line: The algorithm knows me better than you do / Serves me memories I never asked to view

mood: cynical

colors:
notification red
dark grey

composition: extreme close-up

camera: zoom into iris

description: Phone interface close-up: 'We miss you' notification from a vintage app icon. Finger hovers, then dismisses.


lyric_line: Blue light bathing my insomnia / A personalized coma, custom anesthesia

mood: numb

colors:
neon white
midnight

composition: data visualization

camera: data stream

description: Server room corridor. Blinking LED lights reflect in the polished floor. A lone figure walks between the racks.


lyric_line: Swipe right on a stranger who looks like your ghost / The machine learns what I need the most

mood: obsessive

colors:
pixel green
void

composition: overhead server

camera: drone through racks

description: Online shopping interface: 'Broken Heart — 4.7 stars — Add to Cart'. Cursor clicks. Credit card autofill flashes.


lyric_line: Notification: 'We miss you' / From an app I deleted in 2002

mood: sardonic

colors:
amber alert
ash

composition: selfie mirror

camera: mirror flip

description: Infinite scroll animation: faces blur into faces, all slightly similar. Thumb swipes upward in perpetual motion.


lyric_line: My data portrait hangs in a server farm / Every click a brushstroke, every like an arm

mood: existential

colors:
server blinking
concrete

composition: macro pixel

camera: pixel push

description: Selfie camera view: face half-covered by phone. The background is a bedroom that hasn't been cleaned in weeks.


lyric_line: Recommended for you: a broken heart / 4.7 stars, 12K reviews, add to cart

mood: consumerist

colors:
shopping cart orange
pale face

composition: wide bedroom

camera: bedroom pan

description: Drone shot flying through server racks. Cables like vines. Blinking lights like bioluminescence in a digital forest.


lyric_line: The infinite scroll of almost-love / Pixelated doves, none of them enough

mood: defeated

colors:
scroll grey
electric pink

composition: split-screen

camera: screen recording

description: Split screen: left side shows a person crying, right side shows targeted ads for vacation packages and therapy apps.


lyric_line: Cache cleared, history deleted / But the targeted ads say I'm not defeated

colors:
ad yellow
blank

composition: voyeuristic

camera: ad transition

description: Macro shot of a single pixel turning from grey to yellow. The transition takes ten seconds. Sound of a cash register.


lyric_line: Log out, shut down, the screen goes black / The algorithm waits for me to come back

mood: cyclical

colors:
power-off black
standby red

composition: void

camera: fade to black

description: Phone screen powers down. Face disappears into darkness. Only the standby LED remains, pulsing like a heartbeat.


song: Concrete Lullaby

artist: Urban Dreamer

lyric_line: The subway hums my lullaby / Steel wheels singing me goodbye

mood: tender

colors:
subway silver
tunnel black

composition: intimate wide

camera: subtle sway

description: Subway car interior at night. A sleeping head rests against a stranger's shoulder. Fluorescent lights flicker overhead.


lyric_line: Neon moon through fire escape / A concrete cradle, a steel-scape

mood: urban

colors:
neon orange
rust red

composition: framed

camera: static observe

description: Fire escape view. Neon sign glows through wrought iron. A figure sits on the metal grating, legs dangling into air.


lyric_line: Pigeon coos on the window ledge / Nature's refugee on the city's edge

mood: peaceful

colors:
pigeon grey
brick brown

composition: close-up

camera: gentle push

description: Close-up of a pigeon nesting on a windowsill. Behind it, the city skyline stretches into smog.


lyric_line: The radiator hisses like the sea / A white noise symphony for you and me

mood: bittersweet

colors:
radiator white
pipe green

composition: environmental

camera: locked off

description: Radiator hissing steam in a tiny apartment. Two figures lie on a mattress on the floor, sharing one pillow.


lyric_line: Garbage trucks at 5 AM / The city's way of saying amen

mood: industrial

colors:
garbage green
dawn grey

composition: low angle

camera: low drift

description: Street level at dawn. Garbage truck compressors grind. A figure in pajamas watches from a doorway, coffee in hand.


lyric_line: Your breath syncs with the elevator chain / Rising and falling, again and again

mood: intimate

colors:
elevator bronze
skin tone

composition: overhead

camera: high angle down

description: Elevator shaft view from below. Two faces look down through the open grate. Chains and pulleys move in darkness above.


lyric_line: Sirens wail a distant song / Telling someone else they're wrong

mood: observational

colors:
siren red
distant blue

composition: distant

camera: slow zoom

description: Distant sirens. A figure stands at a window, hand on glass. Red and blue lights paint the wall in slow rotation.


lyric_line: Rain on AC units, tin drum choir / Nature and machine in a tangled wire

mood: melancholic

colors:
rain grey
aluminum silver

composition: interior

camera: crane through

description: Rain falling on window AC units. Water streams down aluminum fins. One unit rattles like a snare drum.


lyric_line: The key turns, the lock says click / Home is anywhere the noise is thick

mood: grounded

colors:
brass gold
door brown

composition: macro

camera: macro focus

description: Key entering a lock. The deadbolt turns. The door opens to a dark hallway. A figure steps inside, shoulders dropping.


lyric_line: Sleep now, the city never does / But in your arms, the noise was ours

mood: loving

colors:
streetlight amber
embrace warmth

composition: two-shot

camera: static hold

description: Two figures embracing in bed. Streetlight filters through blinds, striping the sheets. City sounds rumble below.


song: Paper Kites

artist: Wind & Wire

lyric_line: We built a kite from unpaid bills / Flew it from the window sill

mood: playful

colors:
bill white
ink blue

composition: wide

camera: handheld run

description: Hands folding a utility bill into a kite shape on a kitchen table. Twine and tape nearby. Laughter in the background.


lyric_line: The string was twine from a flour sack / We laughed till our lungs nearly cracked

mood: defiant

colors:
flour sack beige
twine brown

camera: crane up

description: Kite launched from a fourth-story window. Two figures lean out, arms extended. The kite catches wind and soars.


lyric_line: It caught a thermal near the bank / Danced above the tanks and tanks

mood: euphoric

colors:
bank grey
kite red

composition: medium

camera: tracking

description: Kite dancing above a bank building. Surveillance cameras watch from corners. The kite dips and weaves like a dare.


lyric_line: Your mother called, you let it ring / We had a kite, we had a string

mood: rebellious

colors:
phone black
sky blue

composition: high angle

camera: static joy

description: Phone buzzing on a windowsill, ignored. Two figures on the roof, flying the kite higher, competing with the clouds.


lyric_line: The tail was ribbon from a dress / You wore the day you said 'yes'

mood: nostalgic

colors:
dress ribbon pink
memory white

composition: intimate

camera: zoom out

description: Close-up of a kite tail: a faded pink ribbon flutters. Flashback: the same ribbon in hair, a 'yes' whispered.


lyric_line: It soared above the power lines / A paper bird between the signs

mood: whimsical

colors:
power line black
cloud white

composition: dynamic

camera: dolly back

description: Kite soaring between power lines. Tense moment. The kite clears the last wire by inches. Exhale.


lyric_line: The wind shifted, the kite went down / In the parking lot of the edge of town

mood: anxious

colors:
asphalt grey
kite crumpled

camera: freefall

description: Kite crashes in an empty parking lot. Two figures run toward it, shoes slapping asphalt. The kite lies crumpled.


lyric_line: We ran to it like it was alive / Picked it up at 4:55

mood: tender

colors:
parking lot yellow
running shoe

composition: ground level

camera: sprint follow

description: Hands smoothing creases from the kite. Tape applied to a tear. Fingers overlap. The kite is whole again.


lyric_line: Creased and torn but still intact / Like us, like that, like fact

mood: resilient

colors:
crease brown
tape silver

camera: macro texture

description: Two figures sit on the curb, kite between them. The sun rises. They hold the string like a promise.


lyric_line: Let's fly it again when the weather's right / Paper kites and paper light

mood: hopeful

colors:
dawn pink
paper thin

composition: horizon

camera: sunrise hold

description: Wide shot: two figures launch the kite again at dawn. Paper catches golden light. The city wakes behind them.


song: Frequency

artist: Signal Lost

lyric_line: Tuning in to the frequency of your doubt / Static between what we said and what came out

mood: frustrated

colors:
oscilloscope green
black

composition: macro circuit

camera: macro drift

description: Oscilloscope screen in darkness. Green waveform dances erratically. Two hands adjust knobs, never finding the right frequency.


lyric_line: You broadcast love on a dying band / I receive it but I don't understand

mood: technical

colors:
radio dial amber
dark grey

camera: rack focus

description: Vintage radio dial glowing amber. A finger turns the knob slowly, searching. Static hisses between stations.


lyric_line: The oscillator swings between hot and cold / A sine wave story, a thousandfold

colors:
sine wave blue
white

composition: abstract

camera: waveform scroll

description: Abstract visualization: a perfect sine wave splits into two, diverging. Colors shift from blue to cold white.


lyric_line: Feedback loop of your silence / Amplified by my compliance

mood: obsessive

colors:
feedback red
silence black

camera: static shock

description: Recording studio. Red feedback light blinks. A microphone hangs abandoned. Cables coil on the floor like snakes.


lyric_line: Equalize the highs, compress the lows / The mix is perfect but nobody knows

mood: resigned

colors:
compressor grey
neon

composition: wide studio

camera: dolly through

description: Mixing board close-up. Faders move automatically. Compressor needles bounce. The sound is perfect; the room is empty.


lyric_line: Phase cancellation when we kiss / Your lips are there but something's amiss

mood: sardonic

colors:
out-of-phase purple
lip pink

composition: extreme close-up

camera: kiss blur

description: Two faces almost touching. A visual ripple effect distorts the kiss. Lips meet but the image cancels itself out.


lyric_line: Modulate my heart to match your key / But the harmonics don't agree

mood: confused

colors:
modulation rainbow
key white

composition: visualization

camera: frequency sweep

description: Kaleidoscope of sound waves. Colors clash and merge. A heart shape attempts to form but breaks into discordant shards.


lyric_line: White noise bed where we used to sleep / Every frequency too shallow, too deep

mood: numb

colors:
white noise static
sleep blue

composition: bedroom

camera: bedroom pan

description: Bedroom at night. TV static illuminates two sleeping figures. The snow on screen mirrors the chaos in the room.


lyric_line: I'm scanning every station, every dial / Searching for the ghost of your smile

mood: desperate

colors:
scan line white
dial glow

composition: scanning

camera: scan flicker

description: Rapid channel scan: faces, ads, news, cartoons flicker. A single smile lingers for one frame, then disappears.


lyric_line: Tune out, drop off, the signal's gone / Static is the only truth from now on

mood: defeated

colors:
static snow
void

composition: void

camera: fade to snow

description: Television snow fills the screen. Pull back to reveal the TV in an empty room. The static is the only light source.


song: Undertow

artist: Deep Current

lyric_line: The tide went out but I stayed in / Breathing water, letting the light dim

mood: surrender

colors:
sea green
sand beige

composition: underwater wide

camera: submerge slow

description: Underwater wide shot. A figure stands on the ocean floor, hair floating upward. Sunlight filters down in visible beams.


lyric_line: Your name is written in the sand / Each wave erases where I stand

mood: melancholic

colors:
foam white
wet brown

composition: surface

camera: surface float

description: Surface view from below. Feet tread water above. A name written in sand on the shore, each wave licking it away.


lyric_line: Seaweed tangles round my ankles now / A gentle weight that won't allow

mood: peaceful

colors:
kelp brown
pale skin

composition: below

camera: drift down

description: Close-up of seaweed wrapping around an ankle. Gentle, vegetative embrace. Small fish dart through the fronds.


lyric_line: The surface shimmers like a lie / Too bright, too far, too high

colors:
surface silver
depth black

composition: looking up

camera: look up

description: Looking up at the water surface from deep below. The light shimmers and distorts like a broken mirror.


lyric_line: I opened my mouth to call your name / Filled it with salt instead of shame

mood: accepting

colors:
salt crystal
blood warm

composition: close-up

camera: bubble rise

description: Underwater close-up: bubbles escape from lips. Eyes closed. Salt crystals form on eyelashes.


lyric_line: The fish don't judge, the crabs don't care / Down here it's quiet, down here it's fair

mood: isolated

colors:
fish silver
coral pink

composition: environmental

camera: underwater pan

description: A crab scuttles past. A school of silver fish parts around the figure. The seabed is soft silt.


lyric_line: My hair floats up like golden weed / I planted promises I didn't need

colors:
blonde float
deep blue

composition: surreal

camera: surreal tilt

description: Hair spreads in a golden halo. Tiny pearls scatter from a broken necklace, drifting down like slow-motion hail.


lyric_line: The undertow has my hand in its grip / Pulling me home on a one-way trip

mood: fatalistic

colors:
undertow navy
hand pale

composition: intimate

camera: sink

description: Hand reaching toward the surface. Fingers spread. The undertow pulls the other direction, gentle but insistent.


lyric_line: Shells in my pockets, pearls in my eyes / The ocean teaches, the ocean lies

mood: transformative

colors:
pearl white
shell pink

composition: macro

camera: macro shell

description: Eyes opening underwater. Pearls reflected in the irises. A seashell rests on the cheek like a tear.


lyric_line: I'll wash up somewhere, smooth and white / A stone that once was holding tight

mood: bittersweet

colors:
stone grey
wave white

composition: shoreline

camera: wash ashore

description: Shoreline at dawn. A smooth stone washes up, wet and gleaming. Footsteps approach, then stop.