[Intro — electric piano, single 808 pulse like a monitor, faint dirty mains hum under everything] [Verse 1 — BEAUTIFUL: breathy, sweet, close-mic, sugar register] Little blue blink in the drywall where your charge used to climb sixty little almosts in a phone with no line I wore you like a thin tee and the cold moved in can't X-ray the crackle when the only tool is skin [breath] The cord sits in a knot by the couch where we missed two bent prongs and a bad wish and a lamp still lit I keep tapping the outlet like it owes me a spark is that you in the hum or my own hands going dark [angelic soprano arpeggios — clear signal, gliding over the top] ah—ah—ah / glass on the wire ah—ah—ah / bright little choir ah—ah—ah / call and return ah—ah—ah / loop and re:boot [Pre-Chorus — "U — T — P" always full chant, rings thru clear] Are you signal? Are you noise? Are you the wire or the voice? It's not u 'n me, baby It's UTP [Chorus — SHORTENED, CHANT-FORWARD] Static kiss lick, lick Sugar on your seam volts, volts Lost the plug still got the heat Signal, signal skin to skin Candy-glitch humming pull me in [glitch stack — soprano braid, chopped and doubled] Kiss the static, kiss it back kiss the static, let it crack la-la-la / live wire ah-ah-ah / soft choir kiss the hiss / split the seam signal clean / in the machine [Verse 2 — BRATTY: pouty, half-spoken, savory register] I need that fizz back need it right now [spoken, spoiled] Fix it. Reset it. I did not come here for soft white noise [sung] I could jack any socket and fake me a spark dress the hiss up pretty put gloss on the dark but noise in a satin slip is still noise in a room and a buzz with no body still spells my name in fumes [angelic soprano arpeggios — bright, glassy, rising over the grit] oh—oh—oh / up and around clear little thread in the static storm oh—oh—oh / up and around I can hear it form [Pre-Chorus] Are you signal? Are you noise? Are you the wire or the voice? It's not u 'n me, baby It's UTP [Chorus] Static kiss lick, lick Sugar on your seam volts, volts Lost the plug still got the heat Signal, signal skin to skin Candy-glitch humming pull me in [— two beats of near-silence, just the mains hum, before the bridge —] [Bridge — voice alone, register sliding bare] There was never an outage. [pause] I tripped my own breaker then called it a blackout blamed the whole grid for the hole I cut with my hand the noise wasn't outside me it was feedback from the nothing I kept feeding a socket that stayed open like it wanted [gospel turnaround — full band returns, slow and heavy] Ooh, the room won't hold it Ooh, the room won't hold it But unshielded was never unarmed nothing to hide behind means nowhere to hide the twist does the work two lines wound up tight the hiss drops dead on the inside [angelic soprano counterharmony — crystal clear over the choir] No—no—no / not broken still open / still spoken high thread, bright thread sewing the noise to the edge [Final movement — BADDIE: full belt, salt register, sovereign] Flip the breaker, baby I'm the hot one now every volt in this body knows its exit route I don't wait on the wall for some green light to glow I'm the socket AND the surge and the hum in the code [ad-libs — glitch chopped, angel voice piercing through] signal / signal / signal glow-glow / go-go clean through the static clean through the static [Final Chorus — 808 returns, glitch chops stacked, all three registers] Static kiss signal found Every current comes back around Signal lost? No — I was never the noise I'm the wire I'm the wattage I'm the voice [angelic soprano arpeggios — stacked, sticky, soaring] ah—ah—ah / signal found ah—ah—ah / come back around ah—ah—ah / never the noise ah—ah—ah / I'm the voice [Outro — the dirty mains hum from the intro slowly resolves into a clean sustained tone, in tune with the final chord] still sending still sending still sending it out [clean tone holds] [end]
