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USE THIS SOUND lyrics
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Intro
Use this sound, use this sound
Verse 1
6:02, eyes open, forty-seven unread, "tag back now," "this audio's blowing," "post before it's dead." Ring light on before the coffee, before I'm even a person, filming the green-tint glitch cut, speed-ramp, strobe, no rehearsin'. Thumb already cramping, jaw already tight, just a face in a circle of light, pretending it's a life.
Pre-chorus
Stay on trend, stay on trend, do the dance the machine recommends.
Chorus
Use this sound, use this sound, let the timer tell me how it's gonna hurt. They typed "so free" the night I forgot how to breathe, twelve seconds of a smile in the dirt. Use this sound.
Verse 2
2:40, brand call, "love the realness, keep it raw, slide the product in the breakup carousel, lyrics on the wall." A heartache I am renting, swipe-through verses I don't own, crying for a contract on a screen, alone in a furnished home. "Make it vulnerable," she says, "but tasteful, keep it clean," so I sell a wound I never had to a lens I've never seen.
Pre-chorus
Stay on trend, stay on trend, do the dance the machine recommends.
Chorus
Use this sound, use this sound, let the timer tell me how it's gonna hurt. They typed "so free" the night I forgot how to breathe, twelve seconds of a smile in the dirt. Use this sound, use this sound.
Verse 3
7:15, gym floor, flat on the rubber, playing careless, shrug like none of it matters, like the empty is a fair price. The slacker shot, the don't-care pose, I shot it forty times, deleted me until the lie looked relaxed enough to climb. Comments rolling: "so relatable," "this is what free looks like," they love the version on the floor; they will never meet the guy.
Bridge
Heart at a buzz I can't unfeel, the filters keep skipping, the edit will not seal, Th-they typed "so free"... so free... the night... I forgot... how to breathe.
Verse 4
1:33 and the room tilts sideways and the timeline is a blur and my hands are not mine and the breath comes short so I mask it in a transition, hide the shaking in a glitch, drop a dead pixel where the lungs should be, pitch the whole thing down so the panic sounds like a choice that I made on purpose, clicking, clicking, mouse keeps clicking while the chest goes tight, and nobody sees it 'cause I cut it too clean.
Verse 5
4:17, it is done, the queue is full, every slot is fed, seven posts standing in a line like a sentence I can't edit. I stare at the scheduled smiles, the borrowed ache, the careless pose, and there is nothing under any of it, nothing of my own. I open my mouth in the dark and the only thing that comes is the thing the app already said: use this sound.
Pre-chorus
Stay on trend, stay on... the machine recommends... nothing left to defend.
Chorus
Use this sound, use this sound, let the timer tell me how it's gonna hurt. They typed "so free" the night I forgot how to breathe, twelve seconds of a smile in the dirt. Use this sound...
Outro
Use this... sound.
Inside the recording
Use this sound, use this sound
Stay on trend, stay on trend, do the dance the machine recommends.
Use this... sound.
Excerpts from artist-supplied lyric files matched by title. Lyric sheets may differ from the released performance.