[mechanical click] one person in turn the knob [breakbeat explodes] they gave me red gave him green gave her something in between said stand here move clockwise don't touch anybody outside your design everybody gets a circle every circle gets a name everybody gets a difference then they sell us back the same [chopped voices] TURN IT TURN IT TURN IT I don't remember picking mine don't remember standing in line don't remember asking anybody what color you think I am inside [Hook] turn the knob watch us fall everybody gets a color nobody gets a call turn the knob round we go somebody built the machine nobody knows who owns the controls [beat rotates hard left] little purple little yellow big green hand saying hello red one falling white one floating blue one's looking like he knows something [pitched-up DASnot] what do you know? [pitched-down DASnot] nothing useful [beat snaps center] we learned our places learned our shapes learned which colors don't behave learned to say that's just the system like the system was weather [Hook] turn the knob watch us fall everybody gets a color nobody gets a call turn the knob make it spin if everybody fits the machine where does a person begin? [Break — bottles and hand drums only] maybe green ain't green maybe red ain't red maybe that's just the easiest word somebody put in our head [voice splits into five positions] I'M HERE I'M HERE I'M HERE I'M HERE I'M— [all voices stop] which one? [Final section — fastest] turn it faster see what breaks watch the colors leave their shapes little bodies climbing outward somebody finally missed their place turn the knob nothing drops [mechanism jams] turn the knob [nothing] [DASnot] oh [pause] we broke it [sub bass continues anyway]
