Waterboard is a two track EP (four if counting instrumentals) I created in a time where I was in a really bad place. I desperately wanted to get away from everything, but couldn’t. There are two songs featured: Sail Away, and Eternal Cycle. Waterboard was supposed to feature eight songs, but I decided to cut six of them because I found Sail Away and Eternal Cycle to be enough to portray the feelings I wanted to portray, and any more detracted from them. The only cut song that was in a more finalized state (besides from a lack of vocals) was Is It Me?, and it is hinted at in Eternal Cycle. I started writing Sail Away in April 2024 and completed it in June 2024. This piece is literally about sailing on a boat and sailing away, but more importantly, it is metaphorically symbolic of letting go of the past and moving on, sailing away, if you will. This song features a lot of inspiration from pirate music because much like how pirates battled each other, there was a constant battle going on when trying to let go of the past and move on. I started writing Eternal Cycle in March 2024 and completed it in December 2024. Eternal Cycle is about the same constant cycle that I was trapped in high school. It was always the same formula on loop: trying to live my life -> people making my life a living hell -> failing to make them understand my feelings -> repeat. High school was brutal, it was a constant endurance test to see how much bullying I could take. Eternal Cycle embodies this constant cycle in musical form. It feels like a cry for help and that is by design. Even with the few moments that are slightly happier, it always reverts back to the same, inescapable cycle. Many times the lyrics are written in a way that just feels like screaming at all of the people who hurt me, yelling at them about all the ways they are awful. A part of me likes to believe that if they heard Waterboard, maybe they would reconsider the way they treated me, but a larger part of me feels that to be impossible.