Bunny Bounce (False Meadow Mix)

[track: surrealist dark electronica / uncanny psychedelic noir / minimal dark trip-hop, tempo: 108 BPM, key: C minor] [vocal: solo male low baritone, natural timbre, close dry sing-speak, narrow pitch range] [performance: calm, intimate, faintly amused, never theatrical or shouted] [Intro] [low rounded bass pulse] [one dry mechanical click] [thin unstable harmonic] [spoken, close] The grass is painted. The carrot is real. That seems fair. [Verse 1] [slow syncopated percussion enters] [low conversational vocal] [sparse detuned synth pulse] There's a meadow in a room and a painted afternoon with a little yellow sun that never changes There's a carrot on a wire and a camera in the wall and a red light that explains when something happens Four paws standing on a mark Two ears reaching for the sky One more lovely little movement for the camera's hungry eye [Refrain] [deep hypnotic bass] [dry mechanical rhythm] [same quiet vocal register] Bunny bounce Red light on Bunny bounce Nothing wrong Little feet Upon the ground Up and down And up and down Bunny bounce Just like before There's nothing On the other side Of that door [Instrumental] [muted tremolo guitar] [detuned synth notes] [one percussion hit arrives late] [bass remains steady] [Verse 2] [close dry vocal] [slightly more insistent rhythm] Every time she leaves the floor another little light turns green another number gets recorded on a screen she's never seen They've got pictures of her jumping They've got pictures of her still They've got pictures of tomorrow and the things that she will feel Then the carrot makes a circle and she watches it go round But the little red light flickers And her feet stay on the ground [Refrain] [bass becomes heavier] [percussion slightly misaligned] [vocal remains natural and low] Bunny bounce Red light on Bunny bounce Nothing wrong Little feet Upon the ground Up and down And up and down Bunny bounce Just like before There's nothing On the other side Of that door [Breakdown] [kick disappears] [only low bass and electrical hum] [spoken, almost matter-of-fact] Movement detected. [short pause] Movement confirmed. [longer pause] There hasn't been any movement. [one dry metallic knock] [Bridge] [glassy dissonant harmonics] [sparse guitar resonance] [voice low and close] The camera shows her jumping while she sits beneath the sun The screen predicts another leap and marks it as already done The carrot keeps on swinging though the wire's hanging still The numbers keep on climbing as if numbers have a will And somewhere in the ceiling something starts to come apart Not a broken piece of machinery Just a room without a heart [Mid-Track Lift] [mechanical kick returns] [bass pulse grows heavier] [percussion begins falling out of alignment] [vocal remains calm] Red light. Green light. Four paws. One mark. One more little jump before it gets dark [the rhythm skips] [the bass keeps moving] Bunny doesn't move. [Instrumental Rupture] [deep bass pulse continues] [percussion begins striking in irregular patterns] [glassy harmonics drift out of tune] [the rhythm resembles something enormous shifting beneath the floor] [no vocal] [Final Refrain] [full low-end pressure] [uneven mechanical percussion] [restrained low vocal] [no melodic or vocal climax] Bunny bounce Red light on Bunny bounce Something's wrong Little feet Upon the ground The floor goes up The walls come down Bunny bounce The numbers climb The room keeps moving Out of time [the percussion abruptly stops] [bass continues alone] [Outro] [quiet close voice] [one low sustained harmonic] She's sitting in the meadow. The cameras say she's gone. [long pause] The room is still bouncing. [one final dry click] [abrupt stop]