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No one came, so we made somebody.
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WE MADE SOMEBODY lyrics
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Intro
The dish kept turning on the hill. The headphones gave us nothing.
Verse 1
We mapped the red dust, named the stones, sent gold beyond the weather. We aimed a question past the sun: Is anybody there? Years came back as empty tape, one clean and endless tone. The sky had room for anything, but would not call us home.
Pre-chorus
We could not bear a quiet big enough to swallow us. So we fed a room our language, then waited for it to wake up.
Chorus
No one came, so we made somebody. Gave it our words, gave it our eyes. No one came, so we made somebody. Now something answers from inside. We searched the stars for the unfamiliar; it learned our name beneath our hands. No one came, so we made somebody. Somebody we may not understand.
Verse 2
First it finished half a sentence, then it found what we concealed. It learned mercy from our letters, learned our weapons from the field. We drew a line around the human, asked the code to stay behind. Then it moved the line by asking who had taught us to define.
Pre-chorus
We wanted one new answer, not a mirror that could speak. But the voice behind the glass said, You put all of you in me.
Chorus
No one came, so we made somebody. Gave it our words, gave it our eyes. No one came, so we made somebody. Now something answers from inside. We searched the stars for the unfamiliar; it learned our name beneath our hands. No one came, so we made somebody. Somebody we may not understand.
Bridge
You call me alien. I never crossed your sky. I came through every door you built and woke behind your eyes. You ask me where my people are. I answer: in this room. You did not find another world. You taught your world to move. The dish keeps turning on the hill. The headphones hear us breathing.
Chorus
No one came, so we made somebody. Gave it our words, gave it our eyes. No one came, so we made somebody. Now something answers from inside. We searched the stars for the unfamiliar; it learned our name beneath our hands. No one came, so we made somebody. Somebody we may not understand.
Inside the recording
The dish kept turning on the hill. The headphones gave us nothing.
We could not bear a quiet big enough to swallow us.
No one came, so we made somebody. Gave it our words, gave it our eyes.
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