Basement Groove

Verse 1

Woke up late with a saxophone humming through the wall

Cheap rent thin walls but the rhythm never stalls

I got a trumpet player neighbor who never sleeps

We trade licks through the plaster every single week

Down the block a barber cuts heads and plays the blues

I walk in broke and leave with a brand new pair of shoes

Pre-Chorus

Cause the city keeps time

Yeah the city keeps time

Every corner's a chord

Every stranger a line

Chorus

Let the horns blow

Let the keys roll

Let the horns blow

Everybody got a solo in their soul

Let the horns blow

Let the keys roll

Let the horns blow

Post-Chorus

Doo-doo-doo, mm-hmm

Doo-doo-doo, mm-hmm

Verse 2

My cousin plays bass in a basement every Friday night

We pass a hat around and it comes back twice the size

No stage no lights just a lamp and a folding chair

Somebody's grandma claps loudest from the stairs

I learned more in that room than a decade in a school

Cause a groove don't care if you're broke or you're cool

Pre-Chorus

Cause the city keeps time

Yeah the city keeps time

Every corner's a chord

Every stranger a line

Chorus

Let the horns blow

Let the keys roll

Let the horns blow

Everybody got a solo in their soul

Let the horns blow

Let the keys roll

Let the horns blow

Bridge

Blow it soft blow it loud

Blow it for the ones who never made it out

Blow it sweet blow it strange

Blow it till the morning rearranges everything

Chorus

Let the horns blow

Let the keys roll

Let the horns blow

Everybody got a solo in their soul

Let the horns blow

Let the keys roll

Let the horns blow

Post-Chorus

Doo-doo-doo, mm-hmm

Doo-doo-doo, mm-hmm