Tick Tap/The Stevettes

Intro

Mm

Mm-hmm

Tick tick tap tap tick

Verse 1

Middle of the night and the quiet hums loud

Finger on the latch and the window swings slow

Every little creak sounds like a warning bell

But the lock is mine and I know the code well

Halls are painted grey like a faded postcard

Shadow on the stair keeps its distance

I count the steps twice and I memorize the turns

Sneak past every beam where the dust gets stirred

Pre-Chorus

Nowhere left to run

Nowhere left to hide

But I'm built for this

Built for the slide

Chorus

Tick tick on the pavement

Tap tap on the tin roof

I'm the ghost in the hallway

Don't need no proof

Tick tick on the pavement

Tap tap on the tin roof

Post-Chorus

Tick tick tick

Tap tap tap

Oh-oh

Verse 2

Vault under the floorboard brass in my palm

Thirty seconds flat and I'm moving like calm

Pebble through the patio ricochet round

Loose brick in the garden goes down down down

Neighbors all tucked in and dreaming in rows

One light in the kitchen that nobody knows

I leave a note with no signature line

Gone like the breath that I keep every time

Pre-Chorus

Nowhere left to run

Nowhere left to hide

But I'm built for this

Built for the slide

Chorus

Tick tick on the pavement

Tap tap on the tin roof

I'm the ghost in the hallway

Don't need no proof

Tick tick on the pavement

Tap tap on the tin roof

Post-Chorus

Tick tick tick

Tap tap tap

Oh-oh

Bridge

Swipe of the string and the violin sighs

Bow meets the bridge like a quiet goodbye

Every sound is a note in a song I wrote

Every step is a beat I keep in my coat

Chorus

Tick tick on the pavement

Tap tap on the tin roof

I'm the ghost in the hallway

Don't need no proof

Tick tick on the pavement

Tap tap on the tin roof