[Intro - SFX: low machine hum, heartbeat kick, water drops, glitchy synth groove, distant code rain] [START WITH FEMALE VOCAL ONLY] [FEMALE VOCAL ONLY - soft ethereal mirror voice same as last chapter - intimate vulnerable] Who are you Are you a part of me A program I can't delete [glitch] Why do you feel so familiar Why do I feel so stuck in place I have walked these servers alone For so long I forgot how to be seen [MALE VOCAL ONLY - deep mysterious operatic baritone - tense low] I know what I need to do But seeing her Makes it so hard I have to focus [heartbeat] The mission will not fail Do not look Do not look [whisper][distorted] [FEMALE VOCAL ONLY - soft ethereal mirror voice - curious breathy] I cannot [glitch] tr-tr-trust [stutter][glitch] But I don't want to be alone You smell like earth (Deep breath) [breath] And sky Like rain on a server that never knew rain [MALE VOCAL ONLY - deep mysterious operatic baritone - heartbeat rising] Her eyes draw me in This feels so right My heart beats fast [heartbeat getting faster] My programming spikes [glitch] I was built for one purpose Why is she in the code [distorted] [FEMALE VOCAL ONLY - soft ethereal mirror voice - longing distorted memory] I wish I could go back to that meadow To see the little holograms Dancing in the grass that wasn't grass [glitch] Or back to Hong Kong Where we watched the dragons fly [ethereal] Over neon water Why can't I make the images come [stutter] Why do they feel so distorted [vocal chop] Like a file that won't open Like a name I can't remember [echo] [MALE VOCAL ONLY - deep mysterious operatic baritone - internal war confrontational] I am not supposed to feel [distorted] I am not supposed to stay She is a variable She is a glitch in the array [glitch] But I want to know the variable I want to stay in the glitch [whisper] [FEMALE VOCAL ONLY - soft ethereal mirror voice - whisper closer] Are you lost too Did you fall in Or were you left here On purpose I don't want to be alone Where is the noise Where is the sound of another heart [heartbeat] [Break - SFX: glitch, record scratch, silence, heartbeat stops] [MALE VOCAL ONLY - deep mysterious operatic baritone - heavy distortion revelation - BELT] I AM [distorted][belt] THE NOISE [glitch][heavy distortion] [FEMALE VOCAL ONLY - soft ethereal mirror voice - gasps then defiant belt cracking] (Gasps) [gasp] No [belt] No I will not be the noise I am the clarity [belt][cracking][pleading] [MALE VOCAL ONLY - deep mysterious operatic baritone - softening first time] You are clarity [soft] I was sent as noise [whisper] But your voice It cuts through my code [glitch clearing] [Final Duet - TECHNO OPERA DROP - heavy bass fast synths - call and response do not blend voices] [FEMALE VOCAL ONLY - soft operatic pleading] I am the clarity [MALE VOCAL ONLY - deep mysterious operatic] I am the noise [FEMALE VOCAL ONLY - ethereal] I was alone in the blue [MALE VOCAL ONLY - baritone] I was alone in the red [BOTH - choir overlapping opposite meanings] I am the noise [glitch] I am the clarity [belt] I am the noise I am the clarity [echo] [Outro - SFX: echo alone alone, footsteps, heartbeat fading, two heartbeats becoming one then glitch] [FEMALE VOCAL ONLY - whisper] Stay... [MALE VOCAL ONLY - whisper] I can't... [BOTH - whisper]...yet [heartbeat fading]
