Opening Credits, Double Time - 01 - Recognised From The Gate

[Intro] [tremolo guitar states the figure alone, slow] [vibraphone answers, three notes] [Verse 1] [brushed breakbeat enters, bass falls under it] I came in on the low road with the lights still on the dash. I had my licence ready and my name behind my teeth. He looked once at the wing mirror and he lifted up the bar before I got to say the thing I had been holding underneath. [Chorus] [vocal holds one note, bass slides down away from it] He knew the car. (the dent, the same) He knew the car before he knew the face. (the same) A whole long stretch of somewhere else, and the bar came up at the same slow pace. [Verse 2] [rimshot enters, guitar tremolo deepens] The yard has got the same wet gravel and the same wet smell. The man has got a different coat and that is all. He said my mother's name to me before I asked him how she'd been, and I stood a minute with my hand against the wall. [Chorus] [vibraphone doubles the held note] He knew the car. (the roof rack still) He knew the car before he knew the face. (still there) A whole long stretch of somewhere else, and the bar came up at the same slow pace. [Verse 3] [bass portamento widens its interval] The gravel takes the tyres the way it always used to do. I did not have to slow down. I already knew. [Bridge] [kit drops to rimshot alone] [voice: gate man, plain, older, spoken] Long way round, was it? [voice: female alto, warm, close] Longer than I meant. I'm here now. [Final Chorus] [kick pattern replaced by low toms, same energy] He knew the car. (before the gravel) He knew the car before he knew the face. (before I spoke) A whole long stretch of somewhere else, and the bar came up at the same slow pace. [Outro] [vibraphone alone, four bars] [reverb decay]