G-11 Detour

Verse 1

Sector G-11 behind the fruit crates

I cut through the drain line

Where the wires hang like tangled braids

Nobody walks this way by choice

I walk it twice

Fingers on wet brick

Counting every crooked turn

Pre-Chorus

Off the grid off the map off the beat

My feet keep landing where the rhythm won't meet

Somewhere the meter starts slipping away

And I let it

I let it

Chorus

Can't find my way back to the one

Every corner bends me further from home

Can't find my way back to the one

I syncopate and syncopate alone

Drop

Ch-ch-chasing the downbeat

Ch-ch-chasing the downbeat

Verse 2

Margalla wind in the stairwell

Someone's kettle someone's prayer

A cat on the transformer box

Stares me down like it knows my name

My voice comes out a stranger's pitch

Higher lower sideways

I answer back in a tone that isn't mine

Pre-Chorus

Off the grid off the map off the beat

My feet keep landing where the rhythm won't meet

Somewhere the meter starts slipping away

And I let it

I let it

Chorus

Can't find my way back to the one

Every corner bends me further from home

Can't find my way back to the one

I syncopate and syncopate alone

Post-Chorus

(Can't come back)

Nah nah nah

(Can't come back)

Nah nah nah

Bridge

Green hum green hum

Under the sodium glow

Green hum green hum

I hold the unresolved

Hold it hold it

Never land never land

Rest is a door I forgot how to close

Chorus

Can't find my way back to the one

Every corner bends me further from home

Can't find my way back to the one

I syncopate and syncopate alone

Drop

Ch-ch-chasing the downbeat

Ch-ch-chasing the downbeat