What is déjà vu?
The other night I came across this YouTube video that breaks down seven weird things our brains do every single day. Stuff like why you can’t remember anything from before you were about four years old, why one person yawning makes everyone around them start yawning too, or that annoying moment when you walk through a doorway and completely forget what you were about to do. It was equal parts fascinating and kind of creepy.
I ended up thinking about it way too much and before I knew it I was scribbling lyrics at 2 in the morning. The idea that our brains are basically running some glitchy beta version of human software really stuck with me. All those weird little bugs and workarounds we never patched. That mix of wonder and low-key existential dread turned into the song Glitch Protocol. We tried to capture that late-night “what even is reality” feeling with big choruses and that paranoid vibe about the whole simulation possibly breaking down right in front of us. Turns out the scariest glitches aren’t the ones in the code. They’re the ones that keep us running.