From the recording LP13 EMPOWERMENT
“Under the Ice” reads as a stark meditation on the moment when struggle gives way to surrender. The frozen surface above becomes both literal and symbolic—a barrier between life and the unreachable world of light. Each verse traces the slow drift from frantic effort to numb acceptance: breath thinning, heartbeat slowing, colours draining. The repeated chorus—“No cracks in the ice / No way out / Only down”—captures the inevitability of that descent, while the final lines (“Your life flashes… you wish you could go back to yesterday”) reveal the human ache for a second chance even as the last light fades. It is less a story of drowning than a haunting allegory of mortality and the quiet pull of oblivion.
Lyrics
[verse 1]
Glass above, a blurred blue light.
Hands drift slow—no edge in sight.
[verse 2]
Breath like smoke, it fades and thins.
The sky’s a ghost I cannot win.
[chorus]
No cracks in the ice
No way out
Only down
[verse 3]
Heartbeats slow, a silent plea.
The world folds dark beneath the sea.
[verse 4]
Eyes grow heavy, colours drain.
Sleep takes the shape of quiet rain.
[chorus]
No cracks in the ice
No way out
Only down
Your life flashes before your eyes
Invisible hands pull you down
Sinking
The light fades
You wish you could go back to yesterday