ALONE IN THE MIRROR · SINGLE
It Sounds Like You
A note never chosen learns to wear a name, until the strings begin to answer for themselves.
- Artist
- JAX ALIE
- Scheduled release
- Label
- ABATTOIR STUDIO
- Series
- ALONE IN THE MIRROR
Lyrics
Canonical song textYou rest your finger on a string.A higher note replies.You name it like you meant it,And the tuning peg turns twice.You try again. It answersWith the note you said you chose.The wood grows warm against your knees.You let it fill your throat.
Each word you give the musicDraws the wires tight.You swear you always wantedThat unfamiliar height.
It sounds like you,It sounds like you.The note your fingers never choseHas learned to wear your name.You sing it till the wire bends,Till every mark moves too.It sounds like you.You want it to be true.
A crescent from your fingernailLies pressed into the lower wire.You trace it with a shaking thumb;The next chord climbs up higher.You give the note a history.The peg turns as you speak.The dent now marks the higher string.You love what it becomes.
It sounds like you,It sounds like you.The note your fingers never choseHas learned to wear your name.You sing it till the wire bends,Till every mark moves too.It sounds like you.You want it to be true.
You love it.There it is.Your thumb still aches below.The mark sits where you said it would.You want them both to be yours.You reach to loosen every peg.The music loses air.You turn the first one back again.It sings the way you said.
It sounds like you,It sounds like you.The note your fingers never choseHas learned to wear your name.You sing it till the wire bends,Till every mark moves too.It sounds like you.And now it says you chose.
Two strings wait beneath your hand.You haven't touched them yet.You say, "You played the higher one."The lower string begins to sing.
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