Song Lyrics: We Built A Two-Minute Heaven ~ Alternative Country, Indie Rock, Dreampop ~ August 3, 2025
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We Built A Two-Minute Heaven
(Verse 1)
Here's the raw cut, the footage nobody sees
A shaky camera fight under wilting maple trees
We drew the battle lines with car keys on the door
Then waged a quiet violence on the bedroom floor
You kept the silences, I curated all the rage
We held the dailies to the fire, burned an empty page
Just deleted scenes of slamming doors and bitter rain
Before we learned to engineer the joy and kill the pain
(Pre-Chorus)
So let's roll camera, frame the shot just right
And color-grade the darkness with a holy, perfect light
Storyboard the memory 'til we believe it's true
You focus-pull on me and I'll focus-pull on you
(Chorus)
We built a two-minute heaven from the wreckage and the lies
Perfect lighting on forever, a render in our eyes
With flawless physics on a fall that never came
Just two directors shouting 'Action!' as we re-enact the flame
We had some help, yeah, we had some help
Making sure the truth could never, ever tell on itself
(Verse 2)
Remember that one weekend? I storyboarded every smile
We scripted every line and made that cheap wine worth our while
The motion capture on the laughter, a flawless second take
We held the edit long enough to feel the heartache break
I wrote your dialogue to be so kind and so forgiving
You designed the set to look like we were really living
And we'd play it on a loop for any friend who dared to ask
Polishing the surface of a gold-plated mask
(Pre-Chorus)
So let's roll camera, frame the shot just right
And color-grade the darkness with a holy, perfect light
Yeah, we built this lovely fiction 'til we believed it's true
You focus-pull on me and I'll focus-pull on you
(Chorus)
We built a two-minute heaven from the wreckage and the lies
Perfect lighting on forever, a render in our eyes
With flawless physics on a fall that never came
Just two directors shouting 'Action!' as we re-enact the flame
We had some help, yeah, we had some help
Making sure the truth could never, ever tell on itself
(Bridge)
But the render starts to glitch now, I see the wireframe through your skin
The perfect blue sky flickers showing pixels where the storm gets in
This beautiful machine we made is running out of drive
It takes too much damn processing to keep this lie alive
How long can we pretend the code's not breaking down?
How long before the real world makes its terrible sound?
(Chorus)
We built a two-minute heaven from the wreckage and the lies
(It's breaking down, the render's glitching in your eyes!)
Perfect lighting on forever, a render in our eyes
(It's just a loop, it's just a story, just a perfect compromise!)
With flawless physics on a fall that never came
Just two directors screaming 'Cut!' and taking all the blame
We had some help, yeah, we had some help...
And now the final credits roll upon ourselves
(Outro)
Two minutes up.
The lighting fades.
The loop decays.
...Fade to black.
About The Song
"We Built A Two-Minute Heaven" uses the news of hyper-realistic, long-form AI video generation (like China's Kling model) as a powerful metaphor for modern relationships and memory. It's not a song about technology, but about the deeply human act of constructing a 'perfect' public narrative to mask a painful, messy reality. The 'two-minute video' is the curated highlight reel a couple presents to the world—and to themselves—to survive a slow collapse. Each partner is an active director, 'storyboarding smiles' and 'engineering joy,' applying 'flawless physics' to lies to make them believable. Musically, it draws from the narrative, anthemic style of country-pop crossovers, using the dual-perspective concept to explore how two people become complicit in building a beautiful fiction. The song’s core is the painful struggle between the pristine, rendered memory and the unedited, chaotic truth of what really happened.
Production Notes
Concept: A cinematic collision of organic Alt-Country and synthetic Dreampop.
Vocals: Dual lead vocals, one male (warm, with a slight gravel, like a less-polished Chris Stapleton) and one female (airy, with a haunting quality like Phoebe Bridgers). They should trade verses and harmonize with a tense, almost competing energy in the choruses. Use a Neumann U47 for the male lead to capture warmth and a Shure SM7B for the female lead for intimacy and control. Vocal chain: UA 1176 for light compression, slight saturation with a Decapitator, and a spacious Valhalla Vintage Verb that gets automated to be much wetter and more glitchy during the bridge.
Arrangement:
- Verses: Start sparse. A detuned acoustic guitar with a simple, driving fingerstyle pattern. A low, pulsing Moog-style synth bass provides the floor. The beat should be a simple, live-sounding kick and sidestick, maybe a stomp-clap rhythm.
- Pre-Chorus: Build tension. Introduce layered vocal harmonies and a filtered, rising pad synth. The drums build with tom fills.
- Chorus: Explosive. Big, open power chords from a Gretsch electric guitar, crashing cymbals, and the synth bass opening up its filter. The vocals should be layered heavily to sound like a crowd singing along, creating that anthemic feel.
- Bridge: The 'glitch' section. The acoustic guitar drops out. The synth pad starts to stutter and detune. Use digital artifacts—bitcrushing on the vocals, stutter edits on the beat—to create a sense of the 'render' breaking. Then, a dramatic silence before the final, desperate chorus.
- Outro: Everything strips away abruptly, leaving just a single, decaying synth note that slowly fades, like a screen powering down.
Mix Automation: Ride the reverbs and delays. Keep verses tight and dry, then open everything up for the choruses. The bridge automation is key: automate filter sweeps, bitcrusher mix, and reverb tails to create a dynamic sense of collapse. The final words "Fade to black" should have an automated high-pass filter to sound distant and hollow.
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