Artwork for Binary Emotions — Lise SterlingTrack 08

Lise Sterling · VIRTUAL ARTIST

Midnight Math

Binary Emotions · 4:26 · 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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Two AM calculator on my phone
Adding up the reasons why you're gone
Subtract the fights, divide the blame
Multiply the hurt by shame
Your birthday's in three months and two days
Wonder if you're counting too
Mathematical proof that I still care
Even though we're through

Numbers don't lie but hearts do
I've been running equations all night
Trying to solve for me and you
But the answer's never right

Midnight math keeps me awake
Calculating every mistake
If I carry the heartbreak, round up the pain
Will I ever see you again?
Midnight math, midnight math
Trying to find the formula for us
Midnight math, midnight math
But love was never algebra, it was

Geometry of how we fit together
Angle of your smile at forty-five degrees
Physics of the way you kissed me
Defying gravity with ease
Chemistry between us was a ten
Biology said we made sense
But statistics show that ninety percent
Of love songs have an unhappy end

Pi goes on infinitely
Like the way I think of you
Trying to solve this mystery
But some things you can't prove

Midnight math keeps me awake
Calculating every mistake
If I carry the heartbreak, round up the pain
Will I ever see you again?
Midnight math, midnight math
Trying to find the formula for us
Midnight math, midnight math
But love was never algebra, it was

X equals the unknown
Y is what I'll never know
Z is the end of everything
That we had to show
Maybe love's not logical
Maybe hearts don't follow rules
Maybe I should stop trying
To solve us with these tools

No more midnight math tonight
Some equations can't be solved
No more midnight math, that's right
Time to let my heart evolve
Can't calculate what we had
Can't compute what went wrong
No more midnight math, I'm glad
To write a different song
Yeah, I'm writing a different song

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