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Sometimes I shamelessly binge watch movie trailers on YouTube. The day I wrote CGI, I had been sucked into the algorithm for 30 minutes and stumbled on the trailer for The Matrix Resurrections. I thought, “what if I planted a whole relationship in the world of make-believe, and like Neo, made the protagonist self-aware enough to realize it?” My co-writer Ryan Story and I began with the pre-chorus, which drew on imagery from the trailer where Neo steps out of a mirror. From there, we invented the rest of the story around a character that is willing to be “played” because he prefers to exist in a fantasy world with someone rather than exist in a reality without them.
With the Metaverse and virtual reality becoming more integrated into our everyday lives, Ryan and I thought it was a super relevant and unique take on relationships, escapism, and the idea that “ignorance is bliss.”
Hunter Heflin
Hunter Heflin – CGI Lyrics
I might be in your pocket
But I don’t wanna pause it
Ooh oh oh
Even if I’m in a cartridge
In your closet and it’s all
Fake don’t wanna wake up
Yeah you been
Stepping out the mirror in my room it’s
Like I’m picking red or picking blue pills
Having trouble swallowing the truth
Cause I might lose you
Feelings like CGI they look real
Ooh you playing me right cause I know they not there
Making these storylines up in my head
But if we playing games I don’t wanna die yet
Ay
And so I
Blast through this shit with what I got
Dash is on 100 I don’t stop
Said I
Blast through this shit with what I got
Dash on 100 I don’t stop
So am I wrong
Thought we were both feeling like this
I’m outta control
I might crash, fall in the abyss
Yeah you been
Stepping out the mirror in my room it’s
Like I’m picking red or picking blue pills
Having trouble swallowing the truth
Cause I might lose you
Feelings like CGI they look real
Oo you playing me right cause I know they not there
Making these storylines up in my head
But if we playing games I don’t wanna die yet
Ay
So I
Blast through this shit with what I got
Dash is on 100 I don’t stop
Said I
Blast through this shit with what I got
Dash on 100 I don’t stop
Don’t you feel anything
Don’t you feel anything
Ooohhh
At all
Feelings like CGI they look real
Oo you playing me right cause I know they not there
Making these storylines up in my head
But if we playing games I don’t wanna die yet
Ay
So I
Blast through this shit with what I got
Dash is on 100 I don’t stop
Said I
Blast through this shit with what I got
Dash on 100 I don’t stop
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