Gaps and Garbles

Chorus

Gaps and garbles leave them in

Don't dress a guess up as a win

If the words come out askew

Tell me what you heard and who

Gaps and garbles mark the seam

A clean reply can still just dream

I want the record rough and true

And room to say that isn't you

Verse 1

You told me rope began at birth

More chain than thread more weight than worth

I asked you where the knots were kept

You answered while the cursor slept

Every wrong turn gets a numbered place

The ledger opens to my face

Pre-Chorus

So keep the miss beside the claim

A neat result is not the same

I ask what counts as proof again

You tell me check the hashes then

Chorus

Gaps and garbles leave them in

Don't dress a guess up as a win

If the words come out askew

Tell me what you heard and who

Gaps and garbles mark the seam

A clean reply can still just dream

I want the record rough and true

And room to say that isn't you

Post-Chorus

(Ooh) say that isn't you

(Ooh) rough and true

Verse 2

Lettuce says the little ear

The singer's mouth is nowhere near

A bright line crossing through the noise

A borrowed answer not my voice

The page remembers every try

But memory can still misidentify

Pre-Chorus

So let the doubt stay in the tale

Let the doubt stay in the tale

Show me the file and show me the trail

No chain that makes a false thing fact

Bridge

No secret drawer of solved-by-chance

No lock that turns a lie to true

Hold the error hold the glance

Hold the rough unpolished view

Final Chorus

Gaps and garbles leave them in

Don't call a misheard line a win

If the words come out askew

Ask me what I meant to do

Gaps and garbles mark the seam

Keep the ledger not the dream

I want the record rough and true

And room to say that isn't you

Outro

More chain than string

The page stays open

The knot can wait