“High Water” is the 11th track on Sleep Token’s second full-length album, This Place Will Become Your Tomb. It follows the theme of much of the album, as its lyrics focus on vocalist Vessel’s mourning over an ended relationship.

Musically, the track features a classic Sleep Token mixture of atmosphere and heaviness. It also samples the synth line of Sleep Token’s 2018 single “Jaws”. “Jaws” focuses on the narrator’s relationship with someone who is dangerous to the point of the relationship being flawed, but the narrator clearly is drawn to it anyways. “High Water,” on the other hand, seems to center on the narrator’s lamentation over the fact that the relationship is now over. Though not officially confirmed, the reutilized synth line implies that the relationship mourned in “High Water” is the same one explored in “Jaws.”