Jazz Noir, No Alibi - DarkPrincess

Verse 1

I order the good scotch and leave three fingers in the glass

Watch you work an angle that I've clocked before, and it won't pass

A lipstick smear stays on the rim, a shade nobody can nab

I'm off my stool and out the door before you've closed the tab

Pre-Chorus

You'll ask the bartender who I was, he'll swear he can't recall

You'll check the coat rack twice for something that was never there at all

Every question left unspoken, I kept the answers mine

It's the closest thing to kindness a fox like me can define

Chorus

I don't finish my drinks, and I don't finish this

Half a glass, half a story, half a kiss

Every road you take to find me ends up a dead-end street

Gone by the time the ice calls it defeat

Verse 2

You kept the number that I gave you, the last digit re-arranged

Every version you believed in was a version I'd exchanged

Never told you where I lived, so you built it in your head

Filled in every blank yourself, and called the fiction fact instead

Pre-Chorus

You'll swear you saw me twice this week, once distant, once too near

I was already three towns over, sipping something clear

Every story people tell about me changes in a flash

It's the closest thing to kindness a fox like me can dash

Chorus

I don't finish my drinks, and I don't finish this

Half a glass, half a story, half a kiss

Every road you take to find me ends up a dead-end street

Gone by the time the ice calls it defeat

Bridge

Someone found the lipstick smear still on a glass they hadn't cleared

Held it to the light, tried to match it to a face that never appeared

Wrong shift, wrong week, even the color turned out to be a lie

I was never in that photograph, never left an alibi

Solo

Chorus

I don't finish my drinks, and I don't finish this

Half a glass, half a story, half a kiss

Every road you take to find me ends up a dead-end street

Gone by the time the ice calls it defeat

Outro

I don't finish my drinks, I don't finish this

Spoken

"Created by DarkPrincess -- Royalty of the night"