Artwork for Binary Emotions — Lise SterlingTrack 09

Lise Sterling · VIRTUAL ARTIST

Reverse Psychology Lullaby

Binary Emotions · 4:46 · 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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Sing me awake with a reverse psychology lullaby
Tell me to stay up all night so I'll close my eyes
Whisper the opposite of what you really mean
Maybe if you say goodbye, you'll never leave
Backwards bedtime stories where the princess saves herself
Upside-down fairy tales on the highest shelf
Tell me I'm ugly so I'll feel beautiful
Tell me you hate me, make it sound musical

Everything's inverted in this house of mirrors
Truth becomes a stranger when the message isn't clear
Say the words that hurt me, maybe then they'll heal
Reverse psychology, but the pain is real

This is my reverse psychology lullaby
Sing me chaos so I'll find my peace tonight
Tell me I'm awake when I'm clearly dreaming
Backwards, forwards, nothing's what it's seeming
Rock me to consciousness with contradictions
Cure me with your fictional addictions
Reverse psychology lullaby
Tell me truths inside your lies

Count sheep jumping over fences in reverse
Each one takes away a blessing, adds a curse
Nursery rhymes rewritten with a darker twist
Jack fell up the hill because gravity doesn't exist
In this bedtime story, hearts break when they're fixed
Sleeping beauty wakes up when she's kissed
Tell me I'm dreaming when I'm wide awake
Tell me this is real for my sanity's sake

Everything's reflected in this funhouse mirror
Love becomes confusion when the signals interfere
Sing the songs that break me, maybe then I'll mend
Reverse psychology, where means justify the end

This is my reverse psychology lullaby
Sing me chaos so I'll find my peace tonight
Tell me I'm awake when I'm clearly dreaming
Backwards, forwards, nothing's what it's seeming
Rock me to consciousness with contradictions
Cure me with your fictional addictions
Reverse psychology lullaby
Tell me truths inside your lies

Maybe we're all just children
Playing games we don't understand
Trying to manipulate the universe
With reverse psychology's gentle hand
If I say I don't need you
Will you finally stay?
If I push you away
Will you love me anyway?
Hush now, don't you cry
Here's your reverse psychology lullaby

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