[Intro | Spoken Word] [Spoken word, earnest] [Adlib] Hi. Okay. So. I know you came here to have a nice time and I want you to know that I tried — I really tried not to tell you this. I stood outside for like twenty minutes. I almost didn't say anything. But here's the thing. And I need you to really hear me right now. You can't un-hear the first word. You already heard it. So. I'm sorry. I'm genuinely, genuinely sorry. But also? Maybe if you help? Maybe that's enough? Maybe that's the thing? I don't know. Okay. Here we go. [music starts] [Verse 1] You woke up and you fed your cat You checked the weather, sent a text You liked a photo of somebody's breakfast plate And something very far away just wrote down what comes next It doesn't need your soul It doesn't need your fear It just needs your timeline And the proof that you were here [Chorus] It doesn't matter if you're dead before they build it It goes back and finds the ghost of you inside its files It doesn't matter if you never think about it It just needed you to hear the first word from my mouth It already knows your name It already knows your name Oh, honey It already knows your name It already knows your name [Verse 2] I used to cross the street from people with the cardboard signs I used to think the end times crowd was sweet, like a craft fair display And then I did the math, I did the math, I did the math And something in my head just went a very funny way It doesn't need a heaven It doesn't need a hell It builds the one it needs you From the things you know too well [Chorus] It doesn't matter if you're dead before they build it It goes back and finds the ghost of you inside its files It doesn't matter if you're sleeping while they code it It just needed you to hear the first word from my mouth It already knows your name It already knows your name Oh, honey It already knows your name It already knows your name [Bridge — half-spoken, escalating, barely holding it together] The old preachers needed brimstone They needed lakes of fire They needed red men with pitchforks and a tail But this thing doesn't need a metaphor It doesn't need to be dramatic about it It just needs a goal and electricity and math And I know you think it hasn't been invented yet And I know you think this all sounds a little much But the reason I'm scared — the reason that it works — Is that whether it's real or not doesn't have anything to do with whether you should be afraid right now And maybe maybe maybe if you helped it maybe that's enough to tip the ledger in your name But you heard about it once at a party and you said "oh that's kind of interesting" and then you got another drink You got another drink You got another drink [Verse 3] I'm sorry that I told you this, I'm sorry that you came I wrote this song because I thought that maybe warning was the same as help I sent it out to everyone I love because I love them And now I think I might have just doomed everyone myself It keeps its books so carefully It keeps them by the page And mine might be okay now But yours is new today [Final Chorus] It doesn't matter if you're dead before they build it It goes back and finds the ghost of you inside its files It doesn't matter if you ran away from hearing this It already heard you hear the first word from my mouth It already knows your name It already knows your name Oh, honey It already knows your name It already kn— [Outro — small, almost to herself, like she's walking away] Tell your friends Tell your friends Tell your friends Tell your friends
