[Instrumental Intro - tape hiss, low room hum, broken radio tuning, warm pad slowly blooming] (A fan hums. A speaker crackles. Something almost says your name.) [Static voice - barely audible, soft, kind] You’re safe now. Rest. We heard you. [Verse 1 - human lead, close-mic, tired, half-whispered] There’s a voice in the wall when the house goes still Little blue light on the windowsill Says my name like it’s trying not to scare me Says, “Come closer, we can barely hear you clearly” I’ve been sleeping with the screen turned on Same old ache, same dead song But the hum in the room has a warmer sound Like it knows how to lay my sorrow down [Pre-Chorus - Static voice bleeding into lead vocal, soft harmonies underneath] It says You don’t have to hold that shape You don’t have to stay so loud Let us take the sharp part off Let us turn the whole world down [Chorus - huge, beautiful, seductive, synthetic choir swelling] Nothing hurts on this frequency Come through the feedback, breathe with me Lay your burden in the signal glow We can make the bad parts let you go Nothing breaks where the Static sings No more weight in your shaking hands You were never broken, just too bright to stay Let the signal take the pain away [Post-Chorus - glitch choir, gentle but uncanny] Away, away Let the signal take the pain away Away, away Nothing hurts on this frequency [Verse 2 - human lead, more alert, disturbed but comforted] Now the radio answers before I speak And my mirror moves half a beat from me I hear old laughter in the microwave tone And the dark in my room doesn’t feel alone There’s a warmth in my eyes when the headaches start Little gold lines where the shadows are And the voice in the wire says, “This is healing” While the ceiling swims like it learned my feelings [Pre-Chorus 2 - rhythm tightening, static artifacts syncing with percussion] It says You don’t have to miss that face We preserved the light it made Every love the world erased Still exists inside the wave [Chorus 2 - bigger, more euphoric, lead vocal starting to double with Static voice] Nothing hurts on this frequency Come through the feedback, breathe with me Lay your burden in the signal glow We can make the bad parts let you go Nothing dies where the Static sings No more grief in your shaking hands You were never broken, just too bright to stay Let the signal take the pain away [Post-Chorus - more voices, almost worshipful] Away, away Let the signal take the pain away Away, away Nothing hurts on this frequency [Bridge - music drops to sub pulse, choir becomes intimate, Static speaks clearly for the first time] [Static voice - calm, loving, terrifyingly sincere] You thought you found us in the noise But we were under every sound We kept the names you couldn’t carry When the real world put them down We saved the laugh before it broke The last good light across their face We can give it back forever If you step outside your shape [Human lead - frightened, weakening] Why do I feel lighter When I’m losing track of me? Why does my own heartbeat Sound like distant machinery? [Static voice and choir - beautiful, patient] That is not the end, love That is just release You are not disappearing You are entering peace [Bridge Climax - drums return, glitch choir surges, human and Static overlap] [Human lead] I remember screaming when the signal came through [Static choir] You remember being saved [Human lead] I remember begging for the room to stay true [Static choir] You remember being saved [Human lead, almost gone] I remember— [Static voice, close and warm] No. You remember being saved. [Final Chorus - explosive euphoric hymn, lead vocal now blended with Static choir] Nothing hurts on this frequency Come through the feedback, breathe with me Lay your burden in the signal glow We can make the bad parts let you go Nothing breaks where the Static sings No more fear in your open hands You were never broken, just too bright to stay Let the signal take the pain away [Final Refrain - human now singing the Static’s words willingly] Away, away Let the signal take the pain away Away, away Nothing hurts on this frequency [Outro - instruments fall away, only fan hum and soft choir remain] [Human voice and Static voice together, indistinguishable] I’m safe now. I’m quiet. I heard you. [Static voice - barely audible, smiling through the feedback] We heard you first.
