[Intro — machine voice / fragmented] No signal. No silence. No space. Next. Next. Next. Don’t think. Just scroll. [Verse 1] Five seconds empty fill it with noise little blue light making the choice Waiting for nothing nothing can stay before the question swipe it away Train door closing screen wakes up one more stimulus one more cut I almost wondered what I became Then the feed called my name [Pre-Chorus — odd meter] What happens when nothing happens? What rises when input ends? A little doubt a little fracture Kill it quickly before it connects [Chorus] Killing thinking before the thought begins Filling every silence with somebody else’s skin Killing thinking keep the circuit clean No empty second between me and the screen Don’t leave a space Don’t let it breathe A question grows if you let it be Killing thinking Swipe. Repeat. [Instrumental Break — 7/8] prepared piano ostinato metal percussion muted trumpet fragments saxophone cut into rhythmic glitches VOICE SAMPLE Work. Home. School. Sleep. Work. Home. Scroll. Repeat. [Verse 2] Maybe I hate this maybe I know Maybe the silence would tell me to go Maybe the office is eating my days Maybe my comfort is only a cage Maybe the answer was sitting nearby waiting inside an unoccupied mind But twenty new faces arrive in a minute If thought is a room don’t let me sit in it [Pre-Chorus 2] Because silence remembers what noise can erase The life that I wanted the choice I misplaced The question gets louder when nothing is playing So keep the machine on keep me escaping [Chorus] Killing thinking before the thought begins Filling every silence with somebody else’s skin Killing thinking keep the circuit clean No empty second between me and the screen Don’t leave a space Don’t let it breathe A question grows if you let it be Killing thinking Swipe. Repeat. [Bridge — tempo fracture / free jazz] No. Turn it off. ... ... What now? What do I think when nobody tells me what comes next? Why am I here? Why do I stay? Why did I give all my empty time away? long saxophone dissonance [Mechanical Build] ALERT INPUT REQUIRED ALERT SILENCE DETECTED ALERT UNAUTHORIZED THOUGHT ALERT SELF-REFLECTION SUPPRESS SUPPRESS SUPPRESS [Final Chorus — heavier / polyrhythmic] Killing thinking one second at a time Selling me distraction then calling it mine Killing thinking efficient and clean Turning every empty space into a screen But leave one second leave one breath leave one silence unfinished because a thought doesn’t need permission to begin [Outro — sparse Rhodes + machine hum] No signal. No video. No recommendation. ... Finally— a thought.
