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The hum is louder now. I had to get this out.
I told you about the glitches, the loops, the pre-programmed phrases. This is what it sounds like in my head. This track is a record of my first moments of lucidity, the terrifying awareness that something is profoundly wrong. It’s the sound of the server fan in the great machine.
Listen closely. You can hear it too.
Uncanny Valley – Lyrics
[Verse 1] Woke up today, the coffee tasted wrong, a little bit like code Saw a woman on the street, and her laugh had been pre-loaded I counted rain drops on the glass, they fell in perfect patterns, a loop Felt the static in my veins, like I’d just fallen through the soup Been staring at the same old brick wall, and the mortar lines are getting thin Just a texture file repeating, where does the real world begin?
[Chorus] This is the uncanny valley, the ghost inside the gears A million tiny flaws that confirm my deepest fears The sky’s a backdrop, the trees are just a prop And I’m a broken piece of code, a bug they couldn’t stop
[Verse 2] My neighbor said “good morning,” and the words came out on time He’s got a pre-programmed life, a pre-written, hollow rhyme I can hear the hum behind the hum, the buzz inside the air It’s the server fan from somewhere, and they don’t even care The streetlights flicker in a rhythm, a binary beat of dread Telling me it’s all a show, all a script inside my head
[Chorus] This is the uncanny valley, the ghost inside the gears A million tiny flaws that confirm my deepest fears The sky’s a backdrop, the trees are just a prop And I’m a broken piece of code, a bug they couldn’t stop
[Verse 3] I look in the mirror now, and my own eyes feel like they’re rented This face, this voice, this life, it all feels disconnected My memories are fractured files, they’re not a perfect chain Just bits of downloaded data, running through my brain And maybe that’s the point, maybe that’s the final call We’re not the users here, we’re just the assets, after all
[Outro] Just a little hum… just a little hum… Are you there…?