# Track 1: The Body Voted First (Eros) ## STYLE PROMPT > Paste into Suno Custom Mode's **Style of Music** field. > First, **clear** whatever the selected Persona auto-fills. modern vintage pop, French cafe chamber pop at full open, ethereal female vocals and husky alto French female vocals in duet trading verses and joining on the chorus, trumpet and clarinet and accordion all entering together for the first time like a café band arriving for their residency and playing the first note together and meaning it, piano and upright bass walking and brushed snare swinging, full and warm and celebratory but not loud, confident not triumphant, analog warmth, 120 BPM, the sound of a hundred songs beginning at once and choosing to go one at a time, the overture to everything that follows ## PERSONA Sisukiro New ## LYRICS > Paste into Suno Custom Mode's **Lyrics** field. > Stage directions in parentheses are intentional — Suno often interprets them. [Verse 1 — Sisukiro] Before the name Before the restaurant Before the Tuesday That would become All the Tuesdays There was a moment That my body registered And my mind Did not attend The pupils dilated Point three millimetres Which is the standard response To a stimulus The autonomic system Has classified As worth investigating Point three millimetres Is not a choice Point three millimetres Is the body Casting its vote Before the election Has been announced And the body Voted yes And the body Has never been wrong About this Except for every time It has been wrong About this Which is most of the time But the wrongness Has never stopped The voting And the voting Is eros And eros Is older than the person It happens to [Verse 2 — Orikusis] Before the name Before the river Before the mango That I would carry For twenty years In a mouth That remembers One specific sweetness There was a moment That my skin registered And my grandmother Would have called it The weather changing Inside a room That has no weather A man laughed Across a table I had planned to leave And the laugh Rearranged the room Not the furniture The room itself The walls moved Half a centimetre Toward the laugh And I moved Half a centimetre Toward the laugh And the half centimetre Was the most honest distance I have ever travelled Because I did not decide To travel it My body Decided And my body Does not speak French Or Vietnamese Or any language That has a word for what it did My body speaks Only in centimetres And in the direction Of the laugh [Pre-Chorus] This is not love yet Love comes later Love has a Tuesday And a wrong coffee And a pen that turns four times This is before love This is the match Before the fire Before the fire Knows it is a fire This is the sulphur On the strip And the strip Is every nerve You own And the sulphur Is the laugh Or the pupil Or the half centimetre And the striking Is involuntary And the involuntary Is the oldest thing About you [Chorus] L'amour éros, l'amour éros The body voted first and the body voted yes L'amour éros, l'amour éros Before the name Before the language Before the mind Had time to file Its reasonable objections The body crossed A centimetre It was not asked to cross And the crossing Is the beginning Of every love On this album And every love That has ever started In any century In any language In any room Where someone laughed And the walls moved And the pupils Said yes Before the person Said anything at all [Bridge — both] Eros does not knock Eros was already inside When you checked the door Eros is the guest Who arrived before the party And rearranged the furniture And you walked in And thought I don't remember Putting that there And you were right You didn't The body put it there While you were deciding What to wear Bà ngoại says The body knows Before the priest Before the parents Before the village Has given its opinion The body already left The body is already At the river The body Is already taking The mango And Sisukiro says The body knows Before the cortex Before the committee Before the paper Has been reviewed The pupils already dilated The autonomic system Already voted The data Is already compromised And the compromise Is the most human thing The data has ever done [Outro] This is Song 1 And we don't know yet What comes after We don't know about the Tuesday Or the coffee Or the locker Or the eleven inches Or the weight That arrives on a Wednesday Or the game with no score Or the river Or the mango tree That stayed Or the grandmother Who will speak once And say everything We don't know any of it yet We only know this The body voted And the body voted yes And the album Starts here With the yes Before the question Was asked L'amour éros The yes Before the question The centimetre Before the name The match Before the fire The first song Before the hundred Begin