[Intro: Instrumental - vinyl crackle, 56k modem dialing, floppy drive click, tremolo guitar] [Instrumental Break: lo-fi tape hiss] [Verse 1: Female Vocal - breathy, intimate, close mic, fragile] I drove around the lake a few more times Parked where we used to park Things don't get as hot as they used to Don't have the same spark I remember [Interlude: Spoken Word - Male Text-To-Speech, monotone, glitched, vintage computer reading log] i signed delayed entry ship jan 14th i need to do something real not just work at kmart and play quake forever [Verse 2: Female Vocal - anguished, shouted, cracked] NO NO! NO! NO! NO! [Interlude: Spoken Word - FemaleText-To-Speech, softer, almost comforting] its ok I support you no matter what [Verse 3: Female Vocal - whispered, broken, confessional] I didn't tell you what I wanted Those words will go unsaid You never came back I never found out if you were dead I just wondered every single day I found different things to talk about Different things to say I met a new boy, I meet each day But I never met you Again [Chorus: Male Text-To-Speech lead, Female Vocal - airy harmony underneath] We found each other by typing slash list at random No feed, no likes, no one counting who cared Just two strangers in a channel with no moderator Two kids who thought the internet would always be that unprepared And we left it unfinished Carrier lost mid sentence I waited 43 minutes after you were gone [Bridge: Female Vocal - smoky, swelling, bittersweet, tape warble] Now my keyboard wants to feel for me Wants to synthesize what sad face meant (whispered) colon dash open parenthesis But back then you had to type your own sad face With a colon and a dash and you meant it Before everything was logged and protected and predicted This was just a dot T X T file on a floppy that you kept [Verse 4: Female Vocal - fragile, spoken to sung, barely there] I never said the words I felt And those words never once died I never said the words you needed Did you ever die I never said the words I need I never said Never [Outro: Call and Response - Female Vocal and Male Text-To-Speech, degrading loop, SFX: dial tone, drive click, modem disconnect] Female: You said: hey if i dont see you before i go... i I saved the log like you asked me to Male TTS + Female echo: You said: hey if i dont see you before i go... i I saved the log like you asked me to Male TTS - heavily glitched, slowing, fading: You said: hey if i dont see you before i go... i I saved the log like you asked me to [End: Instrumental - long silence, single dial tone, tape stop]
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