Primarily driven by a dark but relaxed synth bassline and beat loop, similar to the approach of the verses in “The Wretched.” Piano provides the dominant melodic content behind the vocals, while heavily processed guitars provide atmosphere during the choruses, which also feature a different bassline...
[Verse 1]
It's the glare from the reflection
Making patterns in your eye
It's the looking back in anger
With every second slipping by
Undertow has come to take me
Guided by the blazing sun
Look at everything around us
Well, look at everything we've done
[Chorus]
Please, anyone
I don't think I can save myself
I'm drowning here
Please, anyone
I don't think I can save myself
I'm drowning here
Please, anyone
I don't think I can save myself
I'm drowning here
Please, anyone
I don't think I can save myself
[Instrument Break]
[Verse 2]
There's a tiny little window
Swarms of locusts fill the sky
Maybe I just disappear
If I can keep my head above the tide
[Chorus]
Please, anyone
I don't think I can save myself
I'm drowning here
Please, anyone
I don't think I can save myself
I'm drowning here
Please, anyone
I don't think I can save myself
I'm drowning here
Please, anyone
I don't think I can save myself
[Instrument Break]
A Drowning was written by Mariqueen Maandig & Atticus Ross & Trent Reznor & Rob Sheridan.
A Drowning was produced by How to Destroy Angels.
How to Destroy Angels released A Drowning on Tue May 04 2010.