Playback Forever

(Intro — tape rewind, click, distorted drum loop begins)

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(Verse 1)

We’re in the kitchen, you’re laughing low

You say my name like you always know

You lean in close, your hair falls down

Same exact line, same exact sound

(music stutters — repeat but slightly warped)

We’re in the kitchen, you’re laughing wrong

You say my name but it drags too long

You lean in close but your eyes don’t land

Like you forgot the script we planned

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(Chorus)

Playback forever

The needle chews the groove

Same words rot in different rooms

Playback forever

I hear you when I sleep

Every loop cuts twice as deep

Playback forever

Even when I’m awake

The past keeps glitching my mistakes

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(Verse 2)

We’re in the hallway, you say goodbye

But every time the tone runs dry

You change one word, shift one breath

Like the memory’s learning how to forget

(repeat again — darker)

We’re in the hallway, you never leave

You just dissolve where I can’t see

Door still shut, air still warm

Like you’re trapped inside the form

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(Bridge — stripped, bass + vocal only)

If I play it long enough

It might turn true

If I loop it hard enough

It might be you

If I let it run forever

I won’t have to know

Whether you were ever real

Or just the echo.

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(Final Chorus — layered, unstable harmonies)

Playback forever

Even when I scream stop

The tape don’t care, the tape just drops

Playback forever

My head’s a broken room

Every thought stuck on you

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(Outro — tape melts into static)