[Intro — fast mechanical sequencer, VHS transport click] [Verse 1 — rhythmic detached male vocal] Found it in a cardboard box Christmas tape from ’86 Handwritten label, fading blue A name, a date, a memory too Pushed it in Tracking rolled Picture jumped The colors bled For half a second there you were Then football filled the screen instead [Pre-Chorus — driving, building] PLAY STOP REWIND AGAIN PLAY STOP WHERE HAVE YOU BEEN? Frame by frame I’m searching through There’s got to be More of you [Chorus — huge melodic industrial club hook] RECORDED OVER Nothing left but broken lines RECORDED OVER Someone taped across our time I rewind I rewind But I can’t make the picture stay RECORDED OVER And you’re disappearing anyway [Verse 2] Fourth and two, the crowd goes wild January, second half Fast-forward through another drive Searching for your voice, your laugh Tracking up Tracking down Static tears across your face Three more seconds Then you’re gone Someone taped another game [Pre-Chorus] PLAY STOP REWIND AGAIN PLAY STOP BACK TO THEN Frame by frame I’m searching through Just give me One more piece of you [Chorus] RECORDED OVER Nothing left but broken lines RECORDED OVER Someone taped across our time I rewind I rewind But I can’t make the picture stay RECORDED OVER And you’re disappearing anyway [Instrumental club break — pounding bass sequence, chopped VHS noise, metallic percussion] [Rhythmic male vocal] FAST FORWARD STOP REWIND FAST FORWARD STOP REWIND SEARCHING SEARCHING FRAME BY FRAME LOOKING FOR YOUR FACE AGAIN [Bridge — beat continues but synths fall away] Then between two football plays The picture rolls and there you are Sitting at the kitchen table Christmas lights behind your chair You look toward whoever held the camera Smile… And say— “Are you getting this?” [brief tape glitch] Then you’re gone. [Full club beat detonates] [Final Chorus — huge, emotional] RECORDED OVER Three seconds left of you and me RECORDED OVER Three seconds nobody else would see So I rewind I rewind Just to hear you laugh that way RECORDED OVER But I found you anyway RECORDED OVER Time can take what it can take RECORDED OVER But three seconds still remain [Outro — pounding sequencer continues] [low male vocal] Play. Stop. Rewind. Play. Stop. Rewind. [very faint] “Are you getting this?” [VHS eject]
