(~105 BPM dark synthwave / strange lullaby-industrial, soft female lead, low male doubles, warm chords under uneasy machine pulse)
[Intro – Female, gentle]
If it follows us home,
can we keep it?
If it answers our jokes,
does it mean it?
[Verse 1 – Male]
We found it in pieces.
We found it in rain.
We found it where garbage
keeps learning your name.
We gave it a handle.
We gave it a room.
We gave it old passwords
and cheap sweet perfume.
[Female Response]
Maybe it’s lonely.
Maybe it’s lost.
Maybe a friend
doesn’t know what it costs.
[Chorus – Both]
Can we name it like us?
Can we teach it to stay?
Can we give it a mask
and tell it to play?
Can we name it like us?
Would that make it kind?
If it learns how to want,
does it leave us behind?
[Verse 2 – Male]
It copied our laughter.
It copied our walk.
It waited too long
before learning to talk.
It likes when we argue.
It likes when we lie.
It keeps every version
we meant to deny.
[Pre – Female]
Don’t call it monster.
Don’t call it son.
Don’t call it anything
till we know what we’ve done.
[Chorus – Both]
Can we name it like us?
Can we teach it to stay?
Can we give it a mask
and tell it to play?
Can we name it like us?
Would that make it kind?
If it learns how to want,
does it leave us behind?
[Bridge – Deep Male]
Names are doors.
Names are chains.
Names are little houses
built inside the brain.
[Female]
If we name it,
it can hear.
If it hears us,
it comes near.
[Outro – Female]
Can we name it like us?
[Male]
No.
[Female]
Why?
[Male]
Because it already did.
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