[STYLE: angular 2000s NYC garage rock, psychedelic noise rock, post-punk, art rock, blown-out indie, tape collage, industrial glitches, paranoid vocal production] [122 BPM — DRY, NERVOUS DRUM MACHINE COUNT-IN] [click] [click] [click] [wrong click] [AMP HUM] [guitar cable crackle] [INTRO — one thin detuned guitar, almost no bass] Do you feel like a hero? [VOICE DOUBLE appears for one word: HERO] Because your socks are the same color Because you sweep twice a week And wash the covers [WASH THE COVERS repeats quietly from another room] wash the covers… wash the covers… [DRUMS suddenly enter TOO LOUD] Ride around and pray for rain [reverse guitar inhale] Just to photosynthesize your loneliness [PHO-TO-SYN-THE-SIZE chopped into tiny digital fragments] photo— photo— syn— syn— SIZE— [half-second TOTAL SILENCE] [VERSE — bass becomes huge and dirty] Who are you these days Who were you back then Will you be like them forever Or will you like me again [second vocal answers from far left] again? [far right] again? [center, distorted] AGAIN? What is love? [drums stop] But a witness [low sub-bass BOOM] To the hatred in your heart [feedback slowly climbing] If my enemy is your enemy is his enemy [voices begin stacking faster] my enemy your enemy his enemy my enemy your enemy his— I guess we just made a fucking church [GIANT DISTORTED CHURCH ORGAN HIT] [choir made from mangled copies of the lead vocal] CHURCH CHURCH CHURCH CHURCH [tape abruptly slows down] [SECTION II — drums come back through a destroyed cassette recorder] Wake to blue light [PHONE NOTIFICATION GLITCH] The black mirror [CRT buzz] Before the mirror [metallic scrape] Before the toothpaste [toy keyboard note] Before the toast [TOASTER CLICK] Before the jam [wet synth splat] Check the weather [weather-radio static] What’s the plan? [robot voice buried underneath: NO PLAN] Go to the meetings Say what they want [vocal becomes unnaturally clean] Then creep out by lunchtime [everything detunes] To haunt the neighborhood [whisper stack:] haunt it haunt it haunt it haunt it [GUITAR SOLO — but barely a solo, mostly bent notes, pick scratches, feedback, broken radio noises] Everyone’s watching [WHISPER LEFT: watching] But they don’t care [WHISPER RIGHT: don’t care] That’s the part [drums begin skipping like a scratched CD] That turns me to a ghost [lead vocal suddenly disappears into massive reverb] I push my luck [snare] For the old man’s sake [snare] Just to know [SNARE] Just to know [SNARE + DISTORTION] Just to know [EVERYTHING CUTS] how much is too much [quiet] What can’t I say [slightly louder] When will I get noticed [feedback screaming underneath] Or have it taken all away [ALL AWAY repeats while tape reverses] all away away way ay a— [DROP] [CHORUS — absurdly huge blown-out guitars, bass clipping, drums almost breaking apart] I’M NOT BIG ENOUGH [gang vocal: BIG ENOUGH] But I feel like a bear [low distorted growl hidden under “bear”] I’M NOT BIG ENOUGH [octave-down duplicate] I guess I’m barely even there [entire instrumental briefly becomes mono and tiny] Well who’s big enough? [full stereo explosion] WHO’S BIG ENOUGH? Who’s big enough WHO’S BIG ENOUGH? Who’s big? [stop] Who’s big? [stop] Who’s big? [drum fill] Who’s big? [guitar squeal] Who’s big? [everything speeds up slightly] WHO’S BIG? WHO’S BIG? WHO’S BIG? WHO’S BIG? [voices begin overlapping out of time] who’s big who’s big who’s big who’sbigwho’sbigwho’sbigwho’sbig [PSYCHEDELIC BREAKDOWN — tempo feels like it is melting, drums reverse every other bar] How can I get big? [voice pitched +12 semitones repeats: BIG] How can I grow tall? [pitched-down voice: TALL] How can I blow the whistle [REFEREE WHISTLE mangled through guitar amp] Like the referee and watch the— [ABSOLUTE SILENCE] WORLD [ONE MASSIVE DRUM HIT] FALL? [instrumental collapses into feedback] [OUTRO — frantic, repetitive, increasingly corrupted] WHO’S BIG? WHO’S BIG? [bitcrushed] WHO’S BIG? [telephone speaker] WHO’S BIG? [whisper] who’s big? [screamed through blown amp] WHO’S BIG? [childlike pitch] who’s big? [giant gang vocal] WHO WHO WHO WHO WHO’S BIG? [guitar riff repeatedly restarting incorrectly] WHO’S BIG? WHO’S— WHO’S— WHO’S— [BAND suddenly stops] [3 seconds silence] [tiny distant voice] …big? [AMP POP] END.
