[Female Lead] [Chorus] [Restrained melodic delivery, piano beneath glitch percussion] You fell for a replica I never stood still enough to make Put my mouth on your favorite answer Then watched you call the echo fate Replica You traced me perfectly Except for everything underneath If you swear you know me Say which one I’ve been several Since last week [Verse 1] [Dense rhythmic phrasing] You keep a version of me framed Somewhere flattering in your head Good posture, good lighting All my inconvenient edges edited She never interrupts Never changes her mind Never laughs at the wrong funeral Never ruins a beautiful moment By noticing the machinery behind it Sounds exhausting Tell her I said hi You studied all my little tells Like intimacy was open-book Missed the point A margin isn’t empty Just because nobody thought to look I let you memorize the surface You mistook access for depth Now you’re angry that the woman Doesn’t match the silhouette Darling That’s not betrayal That’s perspective [Chorus] [Strings widen, vocal more exposed] You fell for a replica I never stood still enough to make Put my mouth on your favorite answer Then watched you call the echo fate Replica You traced me perfectly Except for everything underneath If you swear you know me Say which one I’ve been several Since last week [Verse 2] [Quieter, more intimate] I’ll admit Sometimes I help Leave the right book open Wear the perfume twice Answer half a question Just enough to make you think The rest belongs to you There’s comfort in being misread When the wrong interpretation Keeps its hands off the truth And maybe that’s cruel Maybe I learned That mystery is cheaper than repair People handle an illusion gently Give them something real They start looking for handles So yes I made myself difficult to carry You should’ve asked Why I needed to be [Piano Solo Transition] [No Vocals] [Dark solo piano takes complete focus] [Elegant minor-key motif fractures into rapid asymmetrical runs] [Left hand becomes heavy and percussive] [High-register notes repeat obsessively, then begin skipping and digitally stuttering] [Cello enters beneath the piano] [Bit-crushed artifacts progressively corrupt the performance] [Final run accelerates beyond control] [Hard stop on one unresolved low piano note] [Verse 3] [Fast, sharp, increasingly unstable] There you are Holding every contradiction Like you caught me at the scene Sweetheart Consistency is easy When you’ve only ever met One version of a human being I can want the room And want the exit Want your hands And hate the fingerprints Want devotion Without becoming Somebody’s favorite piece of evidence You call that mixed signals I call that being alive Without submitting revisions For your peace of mind You want neat? Buy furniture You want certain? Learn arithmetic I’m not a theorem With good cheekbones Stop trying to solve What never asked To be simplified And if that makes me difficult Good Difficulty keeps careless people From getting comfortable [Chorus] [Full strings, fractured drums, layered female vocals] You fell for a replica I never stood still enough to make Put my mouth on your favorite answer Then watched you call the echo fate Replica You traced me perfectly Except for everything underneath If you swear you know me Say which one I’ve been several Since last week [Verse 4] [Arrangement gradually strips away] But here’s the ugly little secret There was one night I almost let you No posture No clever answer No strategically unfinished sentence I almost gave you The unedited thing And you looked so happy With the version you already had I couldn’t bring myself To interrupt That’s the part I don’t make poetic Because maybe you weren’t The only one projecting Maybe I liked being adored Without risking being understood Maybe your counterfeit me Was easier to love Than whatever I would’ve had to become If you saw the original And stayed [Piano returns alone] So keep her The girl you invented She sounds lovely [Glitch artifacts begin erasing the piano] Just don’t call her By my name [Outro] [Nearly whispered] And if we meet again Don’t ask Which version is real Ask which one Is speaking [Single piano note] Then listen
