dare to turn the music on its head
dare to take the biggest room
dare to like the black shapes that i know you’d like
fill it up with nice decrepid stuff
watch the surface fail
watch the fog close in on those words you love
and i loved to say
i swear i learned them somewhere
i’m terrified of abuse
the beauty of the word
covers up the darkness of its truth
dare to lie awake
repeating melody autotune
and then that cracks
and you wake up
you’ve lost the notes and the words too

but the images you never controlled
and the voice you used to make them
grow stiff in the cold and feel wrong in your hands
when you stoop to take them
can’t plough this field of rust
circuits stutter
which is what they do just before they combust
hear the voices mutter

i swear i learned that somewhere
i’m terrified of abuse
the beauty of the world
covers up the darkness of its truth
dare to lie awake
repeating melody autotune
and then that cracks
and when you wake up
you’ve lost the notes and the words too

written produced mixed by selthe
additional synths by benedict salter
mastered by joerg burger