Teeth in the Firmware

[Intro — pitched-up vocal loop, glitching] sm-sm-smile for me / smile for me / smile for— (the loop corrupts, drops into silence for 2 seconds) [Verse 1 — half-whispered, close-mic] I updated my heart and it asked me to restart I said not yet, not yet, I’m still inside the part where the light gets in where the light gets in through the cracks in the skin of a boy made of pixels and gasoline [Build] And the countdown’s going three, two, fun— I forgot the word for done I forgot the word for won I just know the word for run [Drop / Chorus — screamed over a wall of supersaws] SHOW ME YOUR TEETH IN THE FIRMWARE SHOW ME THE BUG THAT YOU CAN’T REPAIR I WAS BORN IN A CRASH, I WAS RAISED IN A LOOP I WAS SMILING SO HARD THAT MY FACE CAME LOOSE (face came loose, face came loose, face came—) [Post-drop — chipmunk vocal chop] happy happy happy happy / (glitch) / happy happy ha— [Verse 2 — faster, manic] I got a garden in my chest where the code used to grow I got a ghost in the machine and he answers to my phone He says baby, baby, baby, we were never meant to scale We were built in a bedroom out of duct tape and a wail And the wail became a wave And the wave became a rave And the rave became a grave we dance on anyway [Breakdown — everything drops except a single detuned synth and a heartbeat kick] I was told to be grateful for the shape of the cage I said thank you for the bars, now watch me rearrange the whole damn page [Final Drop — maximalist, shoegaze wall + screamed lead + chipmunk choir] SHOW ME YOUR TEETH IN THE FIRMWARE SHOW ME THE GOD IN THE DERIVATIVE AIR I WAS BORN IN A CRASH, I WAS RAISED IN A LOOP I WAS SMILING SO HARD THAT THE SKY FELL THROUGH (sky fell through, sky fell through, sky fell—) [Outro — everything strips away except the corrupted loop from the intro, slower, warped] sm-sm-smile for me… smile for me… smile— (tape stops)