Artwork for Phantom Signals — Lise SterlingTrack 05

Lise Sterling · VIRTUAL ARTIST

Phantom Limb Syndrome

Phantom Signals · 4:20 · 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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Doctor says it's all in my head
This aching for arms that were never there
Prescription for a ghost romance
Medicine for love that wasn't real, I swear
MRI can't find the source
Of missing someone who was just a dream
Phantom limb syndrome, but it's my heart
Nothing's ever quite the way it seems

Neuroplasticity can't rewire
This fictional fire
I'm feeling withdrawal
From a drug I never tried

Phantom limb syndrome for a love that never existed
Reaching for a hand that was never really there
How can I be homesick for a place I've never visited?
How can I miss breathing someone else's air?
My brain's playing tricks on my soul
Making up memories I can't control
Phantom limb syndrome for a love that never existed
But the pain feels so real, I swear

Wrote your number in my diary
Before I even knew your name
Picked out our song from the radio
Before we ever played that game
Muscle memory of your touch
Though we've never even met
Déjà vu in reverse
For a future I'll regret

Mirror neurons firing blanks
At empty space where you would stand
I'm nostalgic for a future
That was never really planned

Phantom limb syndrome for a love that never existed
Reaching for a hand that was never really there
How can I be homesick for a place I've never visited?
How can I miss breathing someone else's air?
My brain's playing tricks on my soul
Making up memories I can't control
Phantom limb syndrome for a love that never existed
But the pain feels so real, I swear

They say you can't miss what you never had
But I'm living proof that theory's bad
Grieving for a ghost
Mourning for a myth
Dancing with shadows
On a cliff
What if I invented you to feel complete?
What if you're just synesthesia
Turning loneliness into melody sweet?
What if love

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