Artwork for Binary Emotions — Lise SterlingTrack 02

Lise Sterling · VIRTUAL ARTIST

Credit Score for the Heart

Binary Emotions · 4:44 · Electronic

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Feelings that refuse the instructions.

Binary Emotions imagines an inner life described in the language of everyday technology and commerce. Weather Report for My Heart, Assembly Instructions, and Return Policy become labels for a world where we sometimes wish we knew how a feeling works.

Lise, the label’s virtual character, explores the gap between these instruction manuals and what escapes them. Muscle Memory, Midnight Math, and Constellation Prize suggest other ways of counting, remembering, and staying close. This chapter prepares the ground for the traces and absences of Phantom Signals.

Weather Report for My Heart opens the album. Continue in order to explore the fourteen objects of this imaginary diary.

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Original lyrics

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Applied for love with perfect credit
Seven hundred fifty on the dot
References from my past relationships
Character witnesses I've got
Background check came back all clean
No red flags in my history
But you denied my application
Said I'm too much of a risk, you see

Interest rates on affection
Keep on climbing higher
Payment plan for your attention
But I'm a broke heart buyer

What's my credit score for the heart?
How do I improve my rating?
What's my credit score for the heart?
Why am I still waiting?
I pay my emotional bills on time
Never defaulted on a promise
What's my credit score for the heart?
Why won't you be honest?

Cosigned on dreams we'll never share
Joint account that's overdrawn
Bankruptcy of trust between us
All my equity is gone
Credit report shows late payments
On the love I never received
Identity theft of my self-worth
By someone I believed

Collections calling day and night
For feelings that I'm owed
Disputed charges on my heart
From a love that never showed

What's my credit score for the heart?
How do I improve my rating?
What's my credit score for the heart?
Why am I still waiting?
I pay my emotional bills on time
Never defaulted on a promise
What's my credit score for the heart?
Why won't you be honest?

Maybe I should consolidate
All my debts of love
Get a fresh start, clean slate
Rise above
Secured card for my feelings
Building credit from scratch
Learning financial healing
For a heart that's not attached

Building up my credit score for the heart
Paying myself first this time
Building up my credit score for the heart
Every dollar, every dime
I'm investing in my own happiness
No more lending to the wrong
Building up my credit score for the heart
Now my credit's getting strong
Yeah, my credit's getting strong

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