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Lise Sterling · VIRTUAL ARTIST

Lost in Translation

Phantom Signals · 4:33 · 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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Typed "I love you" in seventeen languages
But none of them sound right
Google Translate can't capture
The way you said goodnight
French looks pretty on the screen
But it doesn't hold your voice
Mandarin characters spell heartbreak
But that wasn't my choice

Lost in translation, lost in translation
Google can't fix this mess
Lost in translation, lost in translation
Some feelings don't compress
No algorithm for the way you smiled
No emoji for goodbye
Lost in translation, lost in translation
And I don't know why

"How do you say I miss you?"
In every dialect of pain
But the answer comes back error
And I'm broken once again
WiFi can connect the world
But can't connect us two
Auto-correct keeps changing "love"
To "what we used to do"

Lost in translation, lost in translation
Google can't fix this mess
Lost in translation, lost in translation
Some feelings don't compress
No algorithm for the way you smiled
No emoji for goodbye
Lost in translation, lost in translation
And I don't know why

Maybe love was never meant
To fit inside a screen
Maybe some things just get lost
Between what is and what we mean

Found my translation, found my translation
In the silence where you used to be
Found my translation, found my translation
Set my broken heart free
No algorithm for moving on
But I'll learn to say goodbye
Found my translation, found my translation
Now I know why

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