
**Hook 1:** *(immediate earworm)* Swimming upstream through radio static 逆流游过收音机的杂音 (swimming upstream through radio noise) Numbers bleeding into plastic 数字渗进塑料里 (numbers seeping into plastic) **Verse 1:** *(melodic distortion)* Grandfather clocks with digital faces 爷爷的钟长着数字脸 (grandfather’s clock has digital face) Mirror shards reflecting empty spaces 镜子碎片反射空荡的地方 (mirror fragments reflect empty places) Your shadow tastes like copper wire 你的影子有铜丝的味道 (your shadow tastes like copper wire) **Pre-Hook Rap:** *(surreal mountain flow)* 梦里的楼梯往下爬 (stairs in dreams climb downward) 醒来的鱼在天空游 (fish that wake up swim in sky) 电线杆开出蒲公英 (telephone poles bloom dandelions) 我的名字忘记了自己 (my name forgot itself) **Main Chorus Hook:** *(massive hook with impossible imagery)* We’re melting, melting into television snow 融化融化进电视雪花里 (melting melting into TV snow) Breathe the light, swallow time 呼吸光线,吞下时间 (breathe light, swallow time) Never find our bodies-ies-ies 永远找不到我们的身体-体-体 (never find our bodies-ies-ies) **Hook 2:** *(counter-melody)* Concrete grows like fingernails 混凝土像指甲一样长 (concrete grows like fingernails) Memory falls through broken scales 记忆从破碎的秤上掉下 (memory falls through broken scales) **Rap Verse:** *(abstract street linguistics)* 从虚拟的山到想象的水 (from virtual mountains to imagined water) 城市话配着liquified beats (city dialect with liquified beats) 扶梯的人都在做白日梦 (escalator people all daydreaming) 嘉陵江变成了我的血管 (Jialing River became my blood vessels) **Bridge Hook:** *(emotional unreality)* Steal my pixels, steal my weight 偷我的像素,偷我重量 (steal my pixels, steal my weight) Nothing solid, just this state 没有固体,只有这状态 (nothing solid, just this state) **Final Meta-Hook:** *(reality dissolving)* Swimming, melting through the static snow 游着,融化穿过静电雪花 (swimming, melting through static snow) Breathe the light, lose the form 呼吸光线,失去形状 (breathe light, lose form) We’re dissolving, revolving, never being born 我们在溶解,在旋转,永远不被生出 (we’re dissolving, revolving, never being born) **Outro Hook:** *(infinite loop)* Static-tic-tic through the glass 静电-电-电 穿过玻璃 Nothing-ing-ing built to last 没什么-什么-什么 能持久

