The Blackest Fjord

Verse 1

Concrete tower on the fjord bank edge

Cable car rattling off the bridge

Sweat in my collar like a warning sign

First brick they sold me as an investment sign

Now it's my office — every window shattered

Shards of what we thought was watered

No ocean views but I own the weather

Four floors of nothing and the basement's fireproof

Every floor below me breathing on its own

Rent's due Friday and the walls have started talking

I've got more buildings than a king before he fell

The harbor froze — the city moved uphill instead

My building's the last thing left at water level

Bought it for nothing — built it from a debt

Came up through what they called the dark wet

Every mistake I made was made to pay

This whole tower's one long interest rate

Pre-Chorus

So tell me why the water stays

So far from my door that day

I paid for every step down

The harbor gave back what it had owned

Chorus

No sea, no shore — still drowning deep

Every brick above is a debt I keep

Concrete skin and the tide never came

Built on what they said was waste, not gain

So call me king of saltwater stone

This is the blackest fjord the city's known

I own every inch that drowned below

Verse 2

Steel beam bending under the snow load

Engineer quit before the first frost had broke

Water pressure's still down here somewhere

Not from the sea — from every story we're paid for

Floor nine cracked in a storm that never reached

The damage was done by what we believed

I bought this whole block with someone else's hope

Now I own a harbor they moved to cope

Fishing nets hang as chandeliers above

Nobody swims down through this anymore

Not the water — not my people, either

We drink from a pipe three miles away

The tide is a theory that never came

I've built an empire on something that doesn't move

Nothing moves under here except what we choose

I chose to stay — to watch it rot instead

To keep every debt alive and spread

So they'll remember this when the city grows

That once it was a black hole nobody knew

Pre-Chorus

Tell me why the water stays

Why I never left the same old bay

Chorus

No sea, no shore — still drowning deep

Every brick above is a debt I keep

Concrete skin and the tide never came

Built on what they said was waste, not gain

So call me king of saltwater stone

This is the blackest fjord the city's known

I own every inch that drowned below

Bridge

Maybe it's water still — just locked away

Trapped behind a wall I built to stay

Not out of fear but out of greed alone

Every floor's one long, slow drown in stone

The harbor moved upstairs because they learned

That the tide will wait — it won't return

I'm proof that nothing under stays the same

Unless you lock it down and give it a name

So I named this block for what it used to be

For every fisherman who walked out of the sea

I took his water and built something else instead

Now it's just my debt — not yet dead

Chorus

No sea, no shore — still drowning deep