Black Glass🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

Intro — spoken over bass and Rhodes

Turn the dashboard down

Let the skyline light the room

Yeah

Take the long way

Verse 1 — MC 1, smooth and deliberate

Rain writes crooked letters on the windshield

Her nails tap the console keeping tempo with the wheels

Bordeaux leather seats and her lipstick a match

A moon stuck in the bezel trying hard to slip the latch

Learned my math from a landlord

First figure was the rent

Now my signature sits on a tower made of glass and cement

Tailor took my measure couldn't measure the miles

There's a kid in this cashmere still flinching at the dials

Mama warmed the kitchen through the coldest of the seasons

Now the heated marble greets her like the sun came in for dinner

An old rival sent a bottle tied a ribbon round the neck

Strange how a threat gets courtesy when your name is on the check

She asked me why the seal was whole

I told her some gifts got teeth

Saw his smile reflected in the silver underneath

Left a tip that paid the rent and the doorman swung the door

Engine cleared its throat we weren't talking anymore

Hook — female vocal with male responses

Black glass low lights bass in the leather

Her perfume and the night air mixing together

Whole city in the mirror gold face on the dial

She said take the long way

I said that's my style

Black glass low lights let the kick drum roll

Champagne in her laugh little smoke 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, forceful, quick pockets

Black lacquer back pressure that engine's a panther

Her dress got one strap and the night got no manners

Snare kicking doors bass picking every lock

Got the whole car leaning like a yacht at the dock

Silk lining steel nerves signatures on mergers

Seen wolves learn French just to sweet-talk the shepherds

They drape cloth on a trap call it first-class seating

I can hear the price change by the way a man greets me

Every handshake hides fine print underneath the fingers

I watch who gets served I watch who lingers

Your whole empire's rented I can hear it in the boasting

Paper crowns get soggy when the champagne starts exploding

She asks me do I ever switch it off

I loosen up the tie

Let the bass do all the talking as the buildings wander by

Red light on her cheek little gold around her eyes

Soon as green hits the glass we melt back into lights

Hook — fuller harmonies

Black glass low lights bass in the leather

Her perfume and the night air mixing together

Whole city in the mirror gold face on the dial

She said take the long way

I said that's my style

Black glass low lights let the kick drum roll

Champagne in her laugh little smoke 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 lights stitch gold through the roof of the ride

MC 2

Bass got the rearview dancing side to side

MC 1

Her heel on the floor she's conducting the kick

MC 2

Bracelets on her wrist playing percussion on the wrist

MC 1

We could park by the water let the whole world pass

MC 2

Watch the penthouse glow melt on the river like wax

MC 1

Turn the phones face down let the last call fade

MC 2

We can give the city back when the night turns gray

Final Hook — both MCs, female harmonies soaring

Black glass low lights bass in the leather

Her perfume and the night air mixing together

Whole city in the mirror gold face on the dial

She said take the long way

I said that's my style

Black glass low lights let the kick drum roll

Champagne in her laugh little smoke 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 for the volume

I thought she was turning it down

She wasn't

She wasn't