I LIKE MY LOVERS INCOMPREHENSIBLE

[PHASE I - SOMETHING IN THE DARK] [Immediate dirty fretless bass and low darkwave pulse] [Soft industrial percussion, distant reversed breathing] [PROPHET - low, intrigued, melodically intimate] I was taking the long way home. Then the darkness moved against itself. Something enormous turned its attention toward me. The stars behind it blinked out. Not extinguished. Just... looking away. [Brief reversed Glitch-tar harmonic] Suddenly, I could taste the colour of my own name. [PROPHET - softly amused] Well... That's a new one. [Sub-bass bends impossibly] There you are. [PHASE II - THE BEAUTIFUL IMPOSSIBILITY] [Groove deepens, distorted Glitch-tar beneath the bass] [Unstable harmonics drift out of time] One moment you were all eyes. The next, a silhouette with too many intentions. Something brushed against my shoulder. My skin remembered it before it happened. [PROPHET - hushed, delighted] Oh, I like that. You opened a mouth somewhere behind Tuesday. Whispered something that made dead stars start burning again. [Brief metallic harmonic fracture] I felt my thoughts come apart. Not painfully. More like someone undoing the buttons on a shirt I'd forgotten I was wearing. [Low bass slide] You're trying to frighten me. I can feel it in the silence. But sweetheart... I've spent centuries being told what a mind ought to look like. I'm curious what happens when it stops holding its shape. [PHASE III - A TERRIBLE FIRST IMPRESSION] [Groove slips into 7/8] [Sudden industrial-metal rupture, two bars] [PROPHET - breath catches] You showed me my own funeral. Then the life that never happened. I watched myself become a stranger who remembered being you. [Reality tears, distorted self-double] Oh. That was... unpleasant. [Brief exposed bass pulse] Interesting, though. For a moment, I forgot which thoughts belonged to me. I won't pretend I wasn't frightened. [Impossible chord arrives before the downbeat] But you leaned closer. Or perhaps the distance simply gave up. And I realized... You were waiting to see what I would do. So I smiled. Rather shamelessly. [PROPHET - wickedly playful] Is this your idea of foreplay? [One deep alien harmonic] [PROPHET - amused chuckle] Oh. Apparently it is. [PHASE IV - THE SPACE BETWEEN US] [Drums thin, bass continues] [Soft bowed metal and sparse gothic organ] [PROPHET - gentle, sincere] May I? No tricks. No little Edit to pull you into a shape I understand. I don't need to own the mystery to enjoy being close to it. You've spent eternity turning minds inside out. Has anyone ever stayed long enough to ask what you wanted? [Brief near-silence] If this is unwelcome, I'll go. [Entity answers through an impossible harmonic] [The harmonic approaches the Prophet's melody] [PROPHET - softly surprised] Oh. That's your answer. [Gentle bass pulse] Well, then. Come here. However... that works. [PHASE V - THE SHAPE OF WANTING] [Full sensual groove returns immediately] [Dirty bass, darkwave synths, heavy but restrained guitars] [PROPHET - intimate, melodic] You moved through me like a memory that hadn't found its owner. For one exquisite second, I heard the space between atoms trying not to laugh. My heartbeat lost its manners. The stars looked away. [PROPHET - smoky aside] Shy things. [pause] Your shadows curled around my wrist. Not holding. [pause] Asking. So I let my fingers follow the lines that refused to remain a curve. [Metallic guzheng scrape] [Glitch-tar harmonics begin folding into themselves] You shivered. Somewhere, an entire dimension forgot its purpose. [MAJOR REALITY-FRACTURE CLIMAX] [Eight bars of savage asymmetrical glitch-metal] [Downtuned Glitch-tar, industrial impacts, impossible harmonics] [Brief 5/4 fracture, collapsing chord geometry] [No extended solo] [Sudden return to dirty bass groove] [PROPHET - breathless, wickedly amused] Good grief. Was that you? [Low alien harmonic] [PROPHET - delighted] Oh, you're trouble. [MELODIC REVELATION - INCOMPREHENSIBLE] [Groove grows warm but remains unstable] [PROPHET - intimate, fully sung] I like my lovers incomprehensible! Not because I want to solve them! Quite the opposite. I want the surprise of discovering something new after I've lost the words to describe it!!!! [Melody opens, Glitch-tar answers] And if you grow another dimension while I'm looking... Darling, I'll learn where to put my hands. [Alien harmony briefly aligns with Glitch-tar] [PROPHET - sincerely] There you are. Not what I expected. Much better. [CODA - AN OPEN INVITATION] [Groove softens without stopping] [Low bass, warm darkwave synths, distant impossible harmonic] [PROPHET - close, unhurried] I should warn you. I have a habit of getting attached to impossible things. And you... You're going to be trouble. [One impossible harmonic] [PROPHET - delighted] Mm. You already knew that. So tell me, gorgeous... Do you have somewhere you'd like to go? Or shall we make a terrible decision right here? [One warm unresolved chord] [PROPHET - intimate chuckle] Oh. I was hoping you'd say that. [Hard cut] [END]