Flicker Girl

FLICKER GIRL [QUIET 1] The shape that stays after the brief thing ends the retina still holding what the sky already lost [Voice 2] Voice 1: Something burned through Voice 2: Before the dark returned Voice 1: The shape of it Voice 2: Still there Both: In the dark behind the eye [TRANSITION] The frequency that carried it was never what arrived the carrier and the signal are not the same thing Flicker Girl you were the frequency everything else was what you made possible [LOUD 1] Everything brief shapes something permanent everything brilliant leaves the glowing trail The ringing after is the proof it landed the shape left by what was never staying [QUIET 2] Not the star the trail it left not the sound what the ear kept The hair cells still deciding whether the sound has stopped or just moved past hearing [LOUD 2] Voice 1: The shape that stays Voice 2: After the brief thing ends Sleater-Kinney: It meant what it was Garbage: You already know [All four — convergence] Everything brief shapes something permanent everything brilliant leaves the glowing trail [QUIET 3] Flicker Girl the frequency that carried it was never what arrived The retina still holding what the sky already lost It meant what it was while it was [CUT IN QUIET]