[Intro — Cold synth pulse, mechanical clicks, filtered system voice] [Synthetic Voice] Pattern recognized. Outcome: incompatible. [Close-mic male vocal, almost amused] Yeah? Watch us. [Verse 1 — Restrained, intimate tenor over pulsing bass] You’re everything I wouldn’t choose If somebody handed me a list Wrong timing, wrong temperament Too many reasons to resist You talk when I need silence I overthink, you improvise Every calculation says we’re doomed Then you look at me and prove it lied [Pre-Hook — Percussion starts glitching, vocal grows warmer] Maybe love was never logical Maybe that was our mistake Trying to make a living heartbeat Behave like something we could calculate [Hook — Huge electronic pop-rock release] Call it human error Something went beautifully wrong Every rule said we should break apart But somehow we belong Human error The flaw they couldn’t engineer out You and me, completely imperfect And I wouldn’t fix us now Let the system call it failure Let the numbers disagree If loving you is human error Keep the error in me [Post-Hook — Chopped vocal, bright synth stab] Hu-hu-human Error Don’t correct me. [Verse 2 — More swagger, live drums pushing forward] You steal the covers every night I leave cabinet doors half-open You forget where you put everything I say “nothing’s wrong” when something’s broken We fight about the stupid stuff Then laugh before we finish it No algorithm in the world Could understand why this makes sense [Pre-Hook — Rising guitars, breathy grit] Maybe perfect is just boring Maybe clean lines never bend Maybe all the things that don’t fit right Are what we remember in the end [Hook — Bigger guitars and layered synths] Call it human error Something went beautifully wrong Every rule said we should break apart But somehow we belong Human error The flaw they couldn’t engineer out You and me, completely imperfect And I wouldn’t fix us now Let the system call it failure Let the numbers disagree If loving you is human error Keep the error in me [Bridge — Beat collapses, piano and low electrical hum] They could measure every difference Every bad habit Every fight Every reason we shouldn’t work And maybe they’d be right On paper [Soft laugh] But paper never saw The way you reach for me in your sleep Paper never heard you say my name When nobody else was listening Paper doesn’t know a damn thing [Build — Heartbeat kick, distorted synth arpeggio, vocal climbing] So mark it red Flag the file Call us unstable Call us wild Run the numbers One more time You’ll still never explain why— [High Note — Full band slams in] WE WORK ANYWAAAAAY! [Final Hook — Massive, euphoric, slightly distorted lead vocal] CALL IT HUMAN ERROR CALL IT SOMETHING YOU CAN’T SOLVE EVERY PERFECT LITTLE FORMULA FALLS APART WHEN WE GET INVOLVED Human error Yeah, maybe that’s exactly right Two messy people choosing each other Again and again every night Let the system keep its answers I don’t need them anymore If loving you is human error Then I don’t wanna be corrected [Half-time final lift] Don’t fix me Don’t fix us Leave the beautiful mistake untouched [Final sustained line] HUMAN ERROOOOOR! [Outro — Mechanical pulse slowing, soft falsetto] [Synthetic Voice] Correction available. [Male vocal] Decline. [Click] Leave it broken.
