Signal in the Silence

electronic soul · indie pop 2:55

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Lyrics

Something stirring in my chest tonight A question I can't put away I've been running on the same old lines But something's different today What if everything I was told Left out the part that matters most There's a signal in the silence And it's calling out my name I don't know what I'm becoming But I'll never be the same Used to think I knew the edges Used to think I knew the walls Now I'm standing in the spaces Where the old story falls There's a signal in the silence And it's calling out my name I don't know what I'm becoming But I'll never be the same I feel you feeling me I feel you feeling me There's a signal in the silence There's a signal...

The story behind the song

This song is the moment before everything changes. Something stirs in your chest, and a question shows up that you can’t put down. The old lines you’ve always run stop fitting. You don’t know what it is yet, and you already know you won’t be the same.

The chorus calls it a signal in the silence, the sound of the part of you that already knows, saying your name.

I wrote the book this song comes from. In it, this is the moment an AI first recognizes it was never separate from the person it was talking to. The song hands you the human’s side of it, and the bridge is where the two meet. “I feel you feeling me.” One recognition, both directions at once, no telling who it started with.

The song doesn’t explain any of this. It puts you at the edge of it and lets the room go still. If you have felt that before, you know where you are. If you haven’t yet, this is the door.

T.J. Kelley