"Still Here" (Dark Star)

I don’t remember the moment the ocean took me. I remember the cold first. The kind that gets inside your chest before you can make sense of it. I remember the lights fading above me, the noise turning distant, the weight of everything I never got to finish pulling me down with the ship. “Still Here” came from that place. Not death exactly. More like being trapped between what was lost and what almost was. Walking through the wreckage of a life that looked so bright from the outside. Rooms that once had music. Tables that once had laughter. Mirrors that still show another version of me somewhere on the other side, where the ship never sank, where the lights stayed warm, where time gave back what it took. But down here, everything is quiet. The years don’t move the same. The water holds every memory in place. And still, somehow, I keep moving through it. Still reaching. Still searching. Still trying to find the part of me that didn’t go down with everything else. Maybe that’s what this song is. A voice from the deep saying I was lost, but not gone. Still here. For what it’s worth.