Broken Playback - Intellectual

BROKEN PLAYBACK

I think I heard it right… but it changed when I replayed it (it changed)

I press play and it don’t behave (don’t behave)

Same moment… different shade (different shade)

Like the file got rewritten in the same day (same day)

But I can’t prove what it became (what it became)

Verse 1

I remember walking through a thought I already had (already had)

But it don’t land the same when I go back (go back)

Likе something missing that I never еven grabbed (never grabbed)

Or it changed while I looked at it bad (looked at it)

I don’t trust replay no more (no more)

It never opens the same door (same door)

Even silence got a different core (different core)

When I step through it, it don’t feel like before

(not before)

I remember something, but it’s not exact (not exact)

Same picture but the edges don’t match (don’t match)

Like I lived it once but it came back (replayed)

Missing pieces I can’t track back (can’t track)

I don’t trust what the replay shows (don’t trust it)

Every memory shifts when it goes (it goes)

Like the truth ain’t fixed, it grows (it grows)

Or it changes when I go too close (too close)

I hear my voice but it talks off beat (off beat)

Like I learned a new way to speak (new speak)

I don’t know if it’s past or repeat (repeat)

But it don’t land the same on me (not same)

HOOK — FEMALE SIGNAL

I heard it one way… (one way…)

You hear it another… (another…)

Same words, same place… (same place…)

Why it don’t sound the same… (the same…)

I know what was said… (was said…)

You keep saying it’s different… (different…)

We play it again… (again…)

But it change every minute… (every minute…)

(low ad-lib layer)

…that’s not how I remember it…

Verse 2

I don’t know if I’m early or late (can’t tell)

Every replay shift the weight (shift weight)

Something missing I can’t replace (can’t replace)

Even when I focus on the shape (the shape)

I talk and it echo back wrong (back wrong)

Like my voice learned a different song (different song)

I can’t tell if I stayed too long (too long)

Or if time already moved on (it moved)

(female faint underlay — stretched “another…”)

Every replay got a missing piece (missing)

But I don’t know what it used to be (used to be)

Feels familiar but it don’t repeat (don’t repeat)

Like memory don’t agree with me (don’t agree)

Maybe it never stayed how I thought it did (never did)

Maybe memory don’t hold what it is (what it is)

Every time I look back its a Shift (it shifts)

Like it’s alive when I revisit (it lives)

I stop trying to lock it in place (don’t lock)

Let it move how it want in space (in space)

Some things only exist when they break (they break)

And I hear that in every take (every take)

Now I don’t chase the exact replay (don’t chase)

I let it sound how it wants today (today)

If it changes, I let it stay (let it stay)

That’s the truth in the way it plays (it plays)