Breathing Underwater

Breathing Underwater – Shavon
Original Song: Breathing Underwater
A Sound Legion Production
Tools Used in the creation of this song and video: Suno, BandLab, Sonar 7, ChatGpt, Artlist, Sony Vegas

Breathing Underwater is a song I wrote years ago during a period when love, loss, and survival were all happening at once — quietly, internally, and without resolution. It came from a place of sitting inside emotional heat instead of running from it, of choosing stillness even when everything felt like it was burning or sinking.

The song began as a raw demo: vocals recorded over an online instrumental and released on YouTube as a moment captured in time. I didn’t revisit it for years, but it never really left me. When I returned to it recently, I knew it needed to be rebuilt — not reimagined, but finished.

This version of Breathing Underwater features a newly created original instrumental made in Suno, allowing the music to finally carry the weight and atmosphere the lyrics always held. I expanded the song into a visual narrative, developing the concept with ChatGPT and shaping the imagery through Artlist, letting water become both threat and sanctuary — a symbol of emotional pressure, surrender, and adaptation.

The song explores what happens when rescue doesn’t come, when love can’t save you, and when you stop expecting anyone else to throw the rope. It’s about discovering whether there is still life inside you — even when you let yourself sink.

The track was edited and arranged using Sonar 7 and Sony Vegas, then mastered through BandLab. Breathing Underwater is a full-circle piece for me — a song carried forward from an earlier chapter and finally allowed to become whole.

Lyrics

Breathing Underwater
Written & performed by Shavon

Verse 1

Close
I feel the fire like it's close
My skin is burning like it's toast
Oh I'm not running I'm just sitting right here

Most
Oh baby I loved you the most
When we were living by the coast
But I know you and I weren't going nowhere

Chorus

Reach down inside of me
Can you find the life in me
Sink me down and let me see
If I keep breathing underwater

Verse 2

Float
I walked out in the waves to float
I wasn't looking for a boat
I think it's better if I sink right here

Chorus

Reach down inside of me
Can you find the life in me
Sink me down and let me see
If I keep breathing underwater

Bridge

Rope
Oh are you gonna throw a rope
I know you're sick and you can't cope
I'm not expecting you to save me here

Numb
Am I still breathing I feel numb
Oh are you kicking back the rum
Oh does it help you cause for me it's unclear

Chorus

Reach down inside of me
Can you find the life in me
Oh we can live beside each other
What did you take from me

Reach down inside of me
Can you find the life in me
Sink me down and let me see
If I keep breathing underwater

Outro

Reach down inside of me
Can you find the life in me
Sink me down and let me see
If I keep breathing underwater

Underwater (oh)
Underwater sink me down and let me see
If I keep breathing underwater (oh)

Underwater if I keep breathing underwater
Sink me down and let me see
If I keep breathing underwater

Underwater
Sink me down and let me see
Underwater if I keep breathing underwater
If I keep breathing underwater