SHELL

INTRO — SILENT PANIC (Yeah...) VERSE 1 — THE DAMAGE SPREADS I stopped talking just to keep you calm, Hiding the shaking inside my palm. A quiet panic underneath my skin, I can't pretend this is where we begin. I kept it together while the damage spread, Waiting for an answer that you never said. PRE-CHORUS — SILENT WAVES Waves wore the edges, not the core — Your silence moved me more than before. CHORUS 1 — SPLITTING OPEN Shell of what we used to be, Splitting open violently. Every fracture floods with light, Bleeding through the undertow night. I hold the pieces as they move — Something breathes where shells remove. POST-CHORUS — RESONANCE [Instrumental] VERSE 2 — FOSSILS AND SCARS Your outline flickers in the spray, Like signal bending out of range. I trace the ridges pressure made, Fossils of words we never saved. The shell hums low — a living scar, Still vibrating where you are. PRE-CHORUS — FRACTURED BEDROCK Tides erase but don’t delete, The fractured bedrock at our feet. CHORUS 2 — TECTONIC CHANGE Shell of what we used to be, Splitting open violently. Every fracture floods with light, Rewriting what we thought was right. I let the fragments rearrange — Love survives the tectonic change. BRIDGE — TRANSLATING THE PAST Maybe the shell was never meant to last — Only to translate the past. We were never built to stay the same, Just pressure learning its own name. FINAL CHORUS — RELENTLESS CHURN Shell in the tide’s relentless churn, Cracked wide open — watch it turn. Every scar becomes a door, Opening into something more. I keep the pressure beneath the blue — It’s breaking bright… and becoming you. OUTRO — BENEATH THE BLUE (Mmm...) ​——— ​© 2026 IRINNA QUINN. All rights reserved. Lyrics and creative direction by IRINNA QUINN. Hybrid AI-assisted tools were used in audio production, under strict human creative direction.