08 — We Were Listening Wrong

08 We Were Listening Wrong Network Open channel unstable Responses unresolved Signal integrity falling Return to filtered mode Closure authorized Dad I know this mistake I've made it in a smaller room I waited for the words I knew And missed what she was doing I called certainty protection I called access keeping safe I heard silence when the answer Didn't come the expected way I wanted something I could name Something I could hold But I kept cutting out the parts I didn't know I was listening wrong I was waiting for the word I kept asking for the meaning Before I let the signal through I was listening wrong Making absence out of sound If I only keep what's certain I erase what I haven't found Network Unverified voices multiplying No common frame No stable translation Threshold required Dad Then mark it unresolved But don't make the unknown disappear We can name what we don't know We can leave the signal here Daughter Wait Open Again Dad Don't clean it up Don't pull it into words Leave the timing Leave the distance Let the whole return be heard If it answers differently Let different remain Leave the threshold open Don't cut the signal away We were listening wrong We were waiting for one word We kept asking for the meaning Before we let the signal through We were listening wrong Making absence out of sound There was life below the threshold There was something reaching out Voices We were listening wrong Dad Trying to make the voices one Trying to finish every sentence Before the answer had begun Voices We were listening wrong Dad Keep the static with the signal Keep the distance Keep the form Let them answer as they answer Leave the open channel on Distant Voices Ah— Mm-ah— Oh— Mm... Network Threshold suspended Unresolved signal retained Channel remains open Daughter Mm-ah Dad I'm here[Intro: urgent electronic pulse, low strings and rising orchestral pressure] [Choir: monotone vocoder] Open channel unstable Responses unresolved Signal integrity falling Return to filtered mode Closure authorized [Instrumental: heavy guitars enter, then abruptly fall away] [Verse 1: Male Vocal] I know this mistake I've made it in a smaller room I waited for the words I knew And missed what she was doing I called certainty protection I called access keeping safe I heard silence when the answer Didn't come the expected way [Pre-Chorus: Male Vocal] I wanted something I could name Something I could hold But I kept cutting out the parts I didn't know [Chorus: Male Vocal] I was listening wrong I was waiting for the word I kept asking for the meaning Before I let the signal through I was listening wrong Making absence out of sound If I only keep what's certain I erase what I haven't found [Instrumental: mechanical pulse returns beneath rising strings] [Choir: monotone vocoder] Unverified voices multiplying No common frame No stable translation Threshold required [Male Vocal] Then mark it unresolved But don't make the unknown disappear We can name what we don't know We can leave the signal here [Break: instruments fall to glassy synth and distant piano] [Female Vocal] Wait Open Again [Male Vocal] Don't clean it up Don't pull it into words Leave the timing Leave the distance Let the whole return be heard If it answers differently Let different remain Leave the threshold open Don't cut the signal away [Breakthrough: massive orchestral electronic rock expansion] [Chorus: Male Vocal with layered Choir] We were listening wrong We were waiting for one word We kept asking for the meaning Before we let the signal through We were listening wrong Making absence out of sound There was life below the threshold There was something reaching out [Choir] We were listening wrong [Male Vocal] Trying to make the voices one Trying to finish every sentence Before the answer had begun [Choir] We were listening wrong [Male Vocal] Keep the static with the signal Keep the distance Keep the form Let them answer as they answer Leave the open channel on [Instrumental: enormous polyphonic return, distant voices moving independently through guitars, strings and electronic pulse] [Distant Vocals] Ah— Mm-ah— Oh— Mm... [Choir: monotone vocoder] Threshold suspended Unresolved signal retained Channel remains open [Instrumental: everything falls away to piano and room tone] [Female Vocal] Mm-ah [Silence] [Male Vocal] I'm here [Verse 1: Male Vocal] I