[Intro]
[Single clean guitar note repeating, soft electrical hum, minimal synth pulse, distant cymbal swells]
[Playful vocal harmonies, tight groove, bouncing bass line, light electronic percussion]
Where to begin
(Is it plugged in?)
What could be wrong
(Is it turned on?)
[Verse 1]
[Laid-back rhythm, muted guitar strums, organ stabs answering vocals]
The screen is dark
The lights are dead
I checked the wires
Just like you said
Every switch
Every line
Still no signal
Still no sign
[Pre-Chorus]
[Drums build slightly, synth filter opening slowly]
Push the button
Wait again
Maybe this is all pretend
[Chorus]
[Bigger backing vocals, brighter synth layers]
Where to begin
(Is it plugged in?)
What could be wrong
(Is it turned on?)
Nothing will start
(What’s going on?)
Lost in the dark
(All night long)
[Instrumental Break]
[Short funky guitar solo with synth accents and punchy bass fills]
[Verse 2]
[Mechanical groove, playful stop-start drum pattern]
Read the manual
Page by page
Still feels like
A locked-up cage
Every answer
Sounds the same
Same ‘ole problem
Different name
[Pre-Chorus]
[Rising harmonies, tom fills, growing tension]
Flip the breaker
Cross your hands
Pray the system understands
[Chorus]
[Full band energy, crowd-style backing vocals]
Where to begin
(Is it plugged in?)
What could be wrong
(Is it turned on?)
Something’s not right
(What did we miss?)
One little spark
(Could fix all this)
[Bridge]
[Music drops to bass and hand percussion, spoken vocal with vocoder echoes]
Check the cable
(Check the fuse)
Check the things
(You always lose)
Try again
(One more time)
Sometimes failure
(Needs a rhyme)
[Synth and Guitar Solo]
[Call-and-response between soaring synth lead and bluesy guitar phrases]
[Final Chorus]
[Anthemic arrangement, layered harmonies, cymbal crashes, energetic drum fills]
Where to begin
(Is it plugged in?)
What could be wrong
(Is it turned on?)
Finally alive
(Now we have sound!)
Everything works
(Spin it around!)
[Outro]
[Band gradually strips down to bass pulse and electrical hum]
Is it plugged in?
(Once again…)
Is it turned on?
(Come on, come on)
[Ending]
[Soft click sound, then sudden burst of full power guitar chord fading into silence]
From the album “Connection“