Artwork for Phantom Signals — Lise SterlingTrack 02

Lise Sterling · VIRTUAL ARTIST

Emergency Contact

Phantom Signals · 4:23 · Electronic

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Phantom Signals takes place after an interrupted conversation. Phantom Vibrations, Emergency Contact, and Loading Screen trace a familiar wait: for a sign that might still arrive. In Lise Sterling’s fictional world, the silence of an interface is never quite empty.

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Still got your number saved as "Emergency Contact"
Even though you're the emergency I need saving from
Hospital forms still ask who to call
When my world comes undone
You were supposed to be my safety net
Now you're the reason that I'm falling
Irony tastes like medicine
When your cure becomes appalling

Emergency contact, emergency contact
Who do I call when you're the crisis?
Emergency contact, emergency contact
Your name's still there but it's a lie, it's
The cruelest joke my phone can play
Keeping you just one tap away
Emergency contact
But you won't pick up anyway

Filling out forms with shaking hands
Writing "single" where it says relationship
Changed my emergency contact to my mom
Guess that's what happens when love's a sinking ship
She asked me why I changed it back
I couldn't tell her you were toxic
Sometimes the person meant to save you
Is the one who breaks your logic

Emergency contact, emergency contact
Who do I call when you're the crisis?
Emergency contact, emergency contact
Your name's still there but it's a lie, it's
The cruelest joke my phone can play
Keeping you just one tap away
Emergency contact
But you won't pick up anyway

Maybe someday I'll find someone
Who answers when I call
Who won't become the emergency
Who'll catch me when I fall

New emergency contact, new emergency contact
Someone who shows up in a crisis
New emergency contact, new emergency contact
Their love's real, it's not a lie, it's
The sweetest truth my phone can hold
A number worth its weight in gold
New emergency contact
And they always pick up when I call

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