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Intro - spoken over bass and Rhodes

Ease the dial down

Let the skyline talk

Yeah

Take the long route

Verse 1 - MC 1, smooth and deliberate

Rain writes crooked letters on the windshield glass

Her nails tap the trim keeping time as we pass

Oxblood seats her lip stain matches the trim

Moon got tangled in the watch and couldn't swim

Learned arithmetic from the landlord the due date was the teacher

Now my family name sits carved on a rooftop feature

Tailor mapped my shoulders never mapped the distance

Kid in this wool coat still flinches at the sirens

Mama heated supper with the oven every season

Now the warm stone greets her like the sun picked this region

Old rival mailed a bottle wrapped a ribbon round the cork

Strange how threats grow manners when your name is on the fork

She asked me why the seal stayed shut

I said some gifts grow fangs

Watched his smile fall apart in the silver where it hangs

Left a tip that paid the lease then the doorman held the door

Engine cleared its throat we weren't speaking anymore

Hook - female harmonies with male answers

Black glass low lights bass inside the leather

Her perfume and the night air braided up together

Whole town in the mirror gold face on the dial

She said take the long route

I said that's my trial

Black glass low lights let the kick drum roll

Champagne in her laughter little ember in her soul

From the bars on the windows to a roof full of stars

We were raised by the night now the night is ours

Verse 2 - MC 2, harder delivery, rapid internal rhymes

Black lacquer back pressure that motor is a panther

Her gown slipped one strap and the night lost its manners

Snare kicking down doors bass picking every lock

Whole chassis leaning over like a yacht at the dock

Silk lining steel nerves signatures on the mergers

Seen wolves learn the tongue just to sweet-talk the shepherds

They drape velvet on a snare call it first-class seating

I can hear the price shift by the way a man's greeting

Each handshake hides fine print underneath the knuckles

I watch who gets served who wipes who who buckles

Your whole reign is borrowed I can hear it when you brag

Paper crowns dissolve once the cork begins to drag

She asked do you ever switch it off

I loosened up the tie

Let the low end do the talking as the towers wander by

Red glow on her cheek little gold around her eyes

Soon as green hits the glass we dissolve into the lights

Hook - fuller harmonies

Black glass low lights bass inside the leather

Her perfume and the night air braided up together

Whole town in the mirror gold face on the dial

She said take the long route

I said that's my trial

Black glass low lights let the kick drum roll

Champagne in her laughter little ember in her soul

From the bars on the windows to a roof full of stars

We were raised by the night now the night is ours

Breakdown - bass and drums only, MCs trade lines

MC 1

Bridge beams stitched with gold across the roof of the ride

MC 2

Low end got the rearview swaying side to side

MC 1

Her heel on the mat she conducts every kick

MC 2

Diamond wrists drumming on the armrest quick

MC 1

We could park by the water let the whole world pass

MC 2

Watch the penthouse lamps melt down the river like glass

MC 1

Flip the phones face down let the last call fade

MC 2

We can hand the town back when the gray gets made

Final Hook - both MCs female harmonies soaring

Black glass low lights bass inside the leather

Her perfume and the night air braided up together

Whole town in the mirror gold face on the dial

She said take the long route

I said that's my trial

Black glass low lights let the kick drum roll

Champagne in her laughter little ember in her soul

From the bars on the windows to a roof full of stars

We were raised by the night now the night is ours

Outro - drums drop bass continues

She reached toward the volume

I figured she was dialing it down

Quiet laugh

She was not

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