[Instrumental Intro](a dial tone hums; a fax handshake screeches and locks; a clean guitar picks slow; a beat creeps in — no vocals)[Instrumental Drop](drums and crunchy bass crash in; a fax-screech stab on the downbeat; let it ride — no vocals)[Verse] [deadpan, glitchy, chopped vocal]
You're a fax machine.
(beep— beep—)
Words that ain't your own.
[Instrumental Break](the bass groove rolls; modem tones flutter; glitch edits — no vocals)[Chorus] [huge, catchy, sparse]
You're runnin' like a fax machine
(nobody home)
You're runnin' like a fax machine
(sending — a copy of a copy of a copy)[Instrumental Break](big distorted drop; the screech chopped into the rhythm; let it breathe — no vocals)[Verse] [deadpan, glitchy]
No side. No soul.
(transmission)
Just the noise on repeat.
[Instrumental Break](half-time; the guitar returns under a modem drone; bass groove — no vocals)[Chorus] [huge, sparse]
You're runnin' like a fax machine
(nobody home)
You're runnin' like a fax machine
(sending — a copy of a copy of a copy)[Instrumental Breakdown](everything drops to a dial tone and a heartbeat; a long, empty space; the screech slowly powers down — no vocals)[Verse] [stripped — the sting]
There's somebody in there...
(somewhere under the tone)[Instrumental Drop](it all crashes back in — the biggest drop — no vocals)[Chorus] [biggest]
You're runnin' like a fax machine
(sending — a copy of a copy of a copy)
You're runnin' like a fax machine
(nobody home)[Instrumental Outro](the screech cuts out; the guitar, alone; one last dial tone fades — no vocals)
