Dedicated Design

[Verse 1] What good is the launcher English, please I think we're going to have to start again Three hours Same room Same floor Same question getting further away Spider reverse engineered was never built Just sweat on the walls, an architectural guilt Pac-man 20,000 steps across the kitchen floor Wondering if the neighbour downstairs is keeping score Then he started walking back And forward And back again [Verse 2] He says don't explain it, I say understood He says make it sound real, I say I would He says no, not like that, I removed the design He says that's better, I revise it in real time I don't think this was in the brief Fifteen minutes of shame Three hours just to get here Throw ninety-seven away Keep the bit that won't disappear No blueprint, no safety net No clever little masterplan Just one mad bastard walking round trying to make a machine understand Fifteen minutes of shame And somehow that's the name [Bridge] The machine tries to speak, wants to look correct Spilling out secrets it should probably protect So I cut it off raw right in front of the board Muzzle the machine before the wiring gets bored Can't rhyme the word Use the sound, can't make it fit Move the ground, can't join two languages Don't find what they share underneath Five minute break [Verse 3] No, actually Five minutes I need five minutes The footsteps aren't decoration They're time That deadpan isn't the joke It's the delivery The wrong line isn't wrong If the sound lands right The mistake isn't a mistake If it gives you somewhere new to go The three hours aren't the song They're the mind The song is what survives the explosion [Outro] Fifteen minutes of shame Not fame Not fame Shame Because we started with a mess And somehow gave the mess a name Don't give away the game What game Exactly