[Opening] [deep isolated heartbeat] {Pum} Something is moving through the hallways. {Pum} It has no blood. {Pum... pum, pum} But it knows by heart the road that leads into my chest. [First Movement - Circulation] Since you closed the world behind you, my body keeps one doorway open. That is where the cold gets in. That is where my name gets out. That is where your absence comes back every time I try to sleep. You did not leave a wound. You left another organ. Something useless. Something hidden. Something beating without helping me survive. [Refrain] It beats where you are missing. It beats without a heart. Phantom Pulse (Pulso fantasma) No one hears it in the dark. It beats where you are missing. Starts to circulate. Like a blinded creature that does not know how to end. [Pulse Mutation] [pum] You move farther. [pum] You move closer. [pum, pum, pum] Without leaving the place where you no longer are. [pum] I lose you. [pum] I invent you. [pum... pum, pum] Even memory knows how to alter what is real. [Instrumental Expansion] [heartbeat kick becomes heavy techno pulse] [low repeating synth figure] [breathing samples stretched into rhythm] [one missing beat every fourth cycle] [Second Movement - Phantom Anatomy] Sometimes I feel your voice beneath my ribs. Sometimes it climbs along my neck and stops behind my throat. Then I speak, and something that was yours pronounces itself through me. Sometimes your silhouette moves through my veins. Sometimes it leaves light inside the arteries. Sometimes it bites. I never know if it is memory, habit, or a slower way to die. [Refrain - Distorted] It beats where you are missing. It beats without a heart. Phantom Pulse (Pulso fantasma) It will not let the scar close up. It beats where you are missing. Starts to circulate. Everything that disappears looks for a body to inhabit. [Acceleration] [heartbeat becoming irregular] {Pum} No eres tú. {Pum} But it answers. {Pum, pum, pum} No eres tú. {Pum, pum, pum} But it remembers. {Pum, pum, pum} No eres tú. Then tell me... Why does it still remember my name? [Silence] [one distant pulse] [Third Movement - The Missing Beat] There is one strike that never comes. One perfect space where you used to be. The heart avoids it. The blood moves around it. The body learns to walk around the interruption. But on certain nights, everything stops before the hollow. Like an animal that recognizes the place where it lost its keeper. [Low Voice] I do not miss you all the time. That would be much easier. I miss you in intervals. In minor failures of the system. In the unfinished second between believing it has passed... And knowing it still hurts exactly like the day it happened. [Final Pulse Sequence] [pum] Still here. [pum] Still here. [pum, pum, pum] Something remains where nothing should remain. [pum] Still here. [pum] Still here. [pum... ...] Absence also learns to behave like a soul. [Final Refrain - Layered Voices] It beats where you are missing. It beats without a heart. Pulso fantasma. No one can tear it out. It beats where you are missing. Starts to circulate. Everything that disappears looks for a body to inhabit. [Collapse] [all instruments disappear] Pum. You are not there. Pum. You never were. Pum... [whisper] It was only my body refusing to say goodbye. [final missing beat] [End]
