Artwork for Binary Emotions — Lise SterlingTrack 06

Lise Sterling · VIRTUAL ARTIST

Muscle Memory

Binary Emotions · 4:13 · 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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My hands still reach for your side of the bed
At 6 AM when I'm barely awake
Body doesn't know that you're not coming back
Old habits are the hardest to break
I still order coffee for two at the drive-through
Still turn the music down when your song comes on
My feet still take the long way home
Past the places where we used to belong

They say time heals everything
But my body's still remembering
Every kiss, every touch, every way
You used to love me yesterday

Muscle memory won't let you go
Dancing to a song that doesn't play
Muscle memory, it's all I know
Moving to the rhythm of yesterday
My heart might be learning to forget
But my body's not ready yet
Muscle memory won't let you go
Won't let you go

I still reach for my phone when I see something funny
Still type your name then delete it fast
Still cook enough pasta for an army of two
Living in the future but stuck in the past
Mirror shows me practicing smiles
That used to come so naturally
Now I have to teach myself how to be happy
Without your arms around me

They say time heals everything
But my soul's still remembering
Every laugh, every fight, every way
You used to hold me yesterday

Muscle memory won't let you go
Dancing to a song that doesn't play
Muscle memory, it's all I know
Moving to the rhythm of yesterday
My heart might be learning to forget
But my body's not ready yet
Muscle memory won't let you go
Won't let you go

Physical therapy for a broken heart
Learning new moves, making a fresh start
Rewiring circuits that you helped create
Teaching my body how to love again someday
Maybe if I change my morning routine
Maybe if I sleep on your side of the bed
Maybe if I take a different route home
I can get you out of my head

Muscle memory's letting you go
Learning to dance to a brand new song
Muscle memory, it's time to grow
Moving to the rhythm of moving on
My heart is ready to forget
And my body's catching up yet
Muscle memory's letting you go
Letting you go
Yeah, I'm letting you go

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