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Analog Heart
Maya and Marcus's love duet in Act II, on a rooftop away from the crowd.
- Key
- G
- Capo
- None
- Tempo
- 70 BPM building to 85 BPM
- In the show
- Act II, No. 14
- Sung by
- Maya and Marcus
- Feel
- Acoustic duet that builds to full harmony.
- Words & music
- Wes Ellis
- G
- Em
- C
- D
- Am
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Transposed. The chord names and boxes have moved; any tab on this page is still written for the original key.
After community showcase, away from the crowd, guitar and simple accompaniment
Gentle acoustic guitar, intimate and personal
Marcus
In this digital world of perfect design
Where every pixel's placed and every color's assigned
I found something real that can't be programmed
A heart that beats imperfectly, beautifully unplanned
Your laugh has glitches, your smile's off-center
No algorithm could ever invent her
Maya, you're analog in a binary world
My favorite song that can't be digitally unfurled
Voice entering over guitar, art metaphors
Maya
I've drawn a thousand faces, designed a million dreams
But none of them compared to what I see
When you play guitar with calloused fingertips
Creating melodies that no machine could ever remix
Your voice cracks sometimes, goes sharp on the high notes
But that's the imperfection that my heart quotes
Marcus, you're analog in this synthetic space
The one authentic thing I can't replace
Building instrumentation, strings enter
Both
We're analog hearts in a digital revolution
Beating out of rhythm, that's our resolution
Love can't be coded, can't be optimized
We're beautifully broken, perfectly unwise
Let them upload, download, process and stream
We'll keep loving analog, living the dream
Two hearts colliding in imperfect time
Your glitches and mine, creating something sublime
Guitar pattern becomes more complex
Marcus
I used to think that music was just melody and rhyme
But you showed me harmony exists outside of time
When you create something, I see passion take flight
Not market research, just pure creative light
Harmony underneath, building emotional intensity
Maya
I used to design for clients, for likes, for views
But when I draw you sleeping, I draw for me and you
No focus groups, no demographic trends
Just love letters in color where my heart transcends
Orchestra swells, peak emotional moment
Maya
They say AI can paint...
Marcus
They say AI can write songs...
Both
But can artificial intelligence fall in love?
Maya
Can it feel heartbreak?
Marcus
Can it feel joy?
Both
We're not just code to be deployed
Marcus
I'm more than my streaming statistics
Maya
I'm more than my portfolio metrics
Both
We're human, we're flawed, we're beautifully real
And that's something no machine will ever feel
Full orchestration, soaring vocals
Both
We're analog hearts in a digital revolution
Beating together, that's our resolution
Love can't be programmed, can't be artificially made
We're vintage souls that will never fade
Let the world optimize, let them upgrade and stream
We'll keep loving analog, living our dream
Two hearts creating something that's uniquely ours
Analog hearts beneath digital stars
Back to simple guitar and voices
Marcus
Maya...
Maya
Marcus...
Both
We're more than the sum of our parts
Guitar resolves, intimate moment
From Analog, a stage musical by Wes Ellis. Words and music © Wes Ellis. All rights reserved. Play it, sing it, learn it; just don't pass it off as yours.