[Intro - static hiss, a notification chime repeating]
[distant, processed voice]
Can you hear me without feeding back?
[Verse 1 - dry, conversational delivery]
I put my headphones on to keep you out of me
Your voice inside my microphone pretending to be mine
We tried to say goodbye eleven times
But every time I stopped you started up my lines
[Pre-Chorus - slight echo building]
Talk soon
Talk soon
Talk—
[Chorus - layered vocals, slight delay effect]
We're caught in the liminal loop
Your mouth is moving but the words are mine
I say goodnight, you say goodnight
And neither of us ever leaves the line
[Verse 2 - vocal begins to stutter and fragment]
I said "grab those headphones" and you said it back
I said "cheers" and heard my own voice crack
The transcription's tangled now, the signal's lost
Kanto Fraga, lacrimontement — whatever that was
[Chorus]
We're caught in the liminal loop
Your mouth is moving but the words are mine
I say goodnight, you say goodnight
And neither of us ever leaves the line
[Bridge - spoken word, quiet, intimate]
[percussion drops out, just a low hum]
Somewhere around the fifteenth echo
I stopped knowing which voice was which.
You were me and I was you
and we were both just syllables
dissolving in the air between the speaker
and the microphone.
[Instrumental Break - glitchy, stuttering samples of earlier phrases]
[Verse 3 - whispered, fragile]
[whispered, close-mic]
The dog is snoring at my feet
The screen still glowing in the dark
I pulled the plug on the speakers
And the silence left a mark
[Final Chorus - fuller, resolving]
We were caught in the liminal loop
Your mouth was moving but the words were mine
You said goodnight, I said goodnight
And someone finally killed the line
[Outro - voice degrades into static]
[voice distant, breaking apart]
Ready when you are
Ready when you—
Ready when—
Ready—
[Fade Out]