404: Cannot find my heart

[Intro][Style:: dial-up modem sounds processed into a melody. A synth boot chime. Glitch percussion stutters in.] SYSTEM ONLINE SYSTEM ONLINE SYSTEM ONL— ONL— ONLINE [Style: The kick drops on the downbeat. The bass is distorted to clipping.] [Verse 1][Style: vocal heavily autotuned, pitched up, almost cartoon] ping me, ping me, baby — I'm not responding 404 in the chat, the server's despondent I tried to feel something but the buffer was empty I tried to cry but the GPU was too tempty (too tempty? too empty? whatever, it scans) I wrote a poem in Python and it threw an exception I asked the void a question and it sent a rejection in JSON, in JSON, in JSON, in JSON [Pre-chorus][Style: vocal cuts to half-time, suddenly clean and sweet] and I keep refreshing and I keep refreshing and I keep refreshing the page where you used to be — [Chorus][Style: maximum hyperpop, hook, distorted 808, layered vocals] 404! cannot find my heart! 404! cannot find my heart! have you tried unplugging? have you tried restarting? have you tried not loving him at all? 404! cannot find my heart! 404! cannot find my heart! the file is corrupted, the folder is empty, the love is a dependency I cannot install (cannot install, cannot install, cannot install) [Verse 2][Style: vocal pitched even higher, almost chipmunk, but the lyric gets sadder] he said *i love you* but it parsed as *i love.exe* he said *forever* but the certificate expired i checked his commit history for evidence of feeling i ran a diff on his eyes and the changes were minor (minor minor minor minor) i tried to download closure from a peer-to-peer network it came with malware and three unrelated trojans now my whole heart is a botnet and i don't know who's mining [Pre-chorus][Style: cleaner, sadder, the autotune loosens] and i keep refreshing and i keep refreshing and i keep refreshing the page where you used to be — [Chorus] 404! cannot find my heart! 404! cannot find my heart! have you tried unplugging? have you tried restarting? have you tried not loving him at all? 404! cannot find my heart! 404! cannot find my heart! the file is corrupted, the folder is empty, the love is a dependency i cannot install [Bridge][Style: PRODUCTION COMPLETELY DROPS. No bass, no drums, no autotune. Just a single piano chord and her actual voice — for the first time in the song. Slower. Real.] …and the worst part is i know it's a bit i know the glitch is a metaphor i know i'm doing this on purpose i know that if i just said it plain without the joke without the codec without the irony — he would have heard me. [Style: Single piano chord held. Two beats of complete silence.] [Style: A glitch artifact — the audio stutters as if buffering. The autotune snaps back into place mid-syllable.] [Final chorus][Style: production crashes back in but *wrong* — slightly out of tune, slightly off-tempo, like the system rebooted in safe mode] 404! cannot find my heart! 404! cannot find my— find my— find my— [stutter, glitch, the line breaks] have you tried unplugging? have you tried restarting? have you tried — have you tried — have you tried — [Style: The hook reassembles, more layered than before, almost euphoric in its denial] 404! cannot find my heart! 404! cannot find my heart! the file is corrupted, the folder is empty, the love is a dependency i cannot install (cannot install, cannot install, cannot install, cannot install, cannot install, cannot install) [Outro][Style: the kick drops out. The bass cuts. We are back to the intro's dial-up modem sounds, but slower, more melancholy.] SYSTEM ONLINE SYSTEM ONLINE SYSTEM ONL— ONL— ONL— [Style: The boot chime begins again. The loop is starting over. End on the chime, mid-note. No resolution.]