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Drawing Lines In The Dark
(Verse 1)
We turned off all the lights, went somewhere no one's been before
Left the wreckage of the last war piled outside the door
A hundred atmospheres of pressure on your skin and on my chest
You swore you'd be my ceasefire, put my shaking hands to rest.
(Pre-Chorus)
And we drew a map on paper, named the monsters that we hide
Declared this little world protected, from the currents and the tide...
(Chorus)
But we're drawing lines in the dark, my love
On a chart of an unknown sea
We signed a treaty for our hearts, my love
But who's gonna police you and me?
This fragile ecosystem runs too wild and runs too deep
And this precious little promise is impossible to keep.
(Verse 2)
I hear the drills of their opinions, humming through the floorboards now
They wanna dredge us up for reasons, and they wanna show us how
How to be lighter, how to be stable, how to live up in the sun
They don't understand the creatures we've become when day is done.
(Pre-Chorus)
Yeah we drew a map on paper, but the ink is starting to run
Swore we’d hold this world together, 'til we both came undone.
(Chorus)
'Cause we're drawing lines in the dark, my love
On a chart of an unknown sea
We signed a treaty for our hearts, my love
But who's gonna police you and me?
This fragile ecosystem runs too wild and runs too deep
And this precious little promise is impossible to keep.
(Bridge)
Down here in the crushing quiet, I feel you start to breathe
And it's all the world I'll ever want, it's all that I believe
But a tremor starts inside me, a hairline crack appears
'Cause our treaty is just language to dismantle all our fears... just a bandage for the years.
(Final Chorus)
And we're drawing lines in the dark, my love!
On a chart of an unknown sea!
We signed a treaty for our hearts, my love!
BUT WHO'S GONNA POLICE YOU FROM ME?!
This whole damn thing is too wild, it's way too deep!
And this beautiful damn promise...
is a lie we have to keep...
...a lie we have to keep...
About The Song
This song uses the landmark international treaty to protect deep-sea 'dark ecosystems' as a central metaphor for a volatile, deeply passionate relationship. The couple in the song have created their own private, beautiful, and unknown world—their 'dark ecosystem'—that is vital to them but threatened by external pressures ('drilling opinions') and their own internal conflicts. They sign a 'treaty'—a promise, a ceasefire—to protect this sacred space. The song captures the immense relief of this pact but pivots on the crushing anxiety that this promise is unenforceable. It’s a love song about the desperate, active struggle to govern an emotional territory that is as vast, unknown, and powerful as the deep ocean, and the terrifying realization that you might be the biggest threat to the very thing you're trying to protect.
Production Notes
Style: Soul / Power Ballad / Alt-Rock (in the vein of Teddy Swims, Hozier, Noah Kahan).
Vocals: The song requires a massive dynamic range. Verses are intimate, breathy, and close-mic'd (Neumann U47 or similar warm tube mic). The pre-chorus should build in intensity, leading to a raw, fully-belted, powerful chorus with emotional strain and grit. Use parallel compression on the chorus vocals, blending a heavily compressed track (1176, all-buttons-in style) with the main vocal for weight and aggression. Background vocals should enter in the chorus with a wide, gospel-choir-like harmony to heighten the scale.
Arrangement:
- Verses: Minimalist and tense. A deep, pulsing synth bass mimicking sonar, sparse and reverberant piano chords, and a clean electric guitar playing lonely, high-arpeggiated notes with delay.
- Pre-Chorus: Introduce a driving kick drum pattern (four-on-the-floor) and rising tension from subtle string pads or a swelling organ.
- Chorus: An explosion of sound. A full, live-sounding drum kit takes over, the synth bass is layered with a distorted bass guitar, and power chords on a crunchy electric guitar fill out the space. The piano should move to big, block chords.
Mix: The key is dynamic automation. The mix should feel small and tight in the verses and then explode to be massive, wide, and loud in the chorus. Automate reverb throws on the last word of vocal phrases in the verse for an atmospheric effect. In the bridge, pull most of the instrumentation out to spotlight the raw vocal, then build back into the biggest chorus of all. The final line should have a long, decaying reverb tail as it fades out.
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