[Hook: Hard-house male MC, full kick, rowdy hard-house hook] Fire drill Friday and the whole tower out Lanyards in the air and the plaza in a shout Nine hundred on the concrete and nobody in doubt It's a fire drill party, everybody out [Verse 1: Hard-house male MC, rowdy hard-house flow, bars on the kick] Second week at the office, I'm the new guy on nine Got a badge and a password and a desk and a line Three o'clock on a Friday when the alarm went wild Every spreadsheet frozen and the stairwell piled Nine flights down with a speaker in my bag Fire marshal on the plaza with a clipboard and a flag Said, stand by your section, we'll be out here a while So I reached in the backpack with a new-guy smile Hard house in a pocket and the volume on ten Said, a while is a while, so we might as well begin [Hook: Hard-house male MC, full kick, rowdy hard-house hook] Fire drill Friday and the whole tower out Lanyards in the air and the plaza in a shout Nine hundred on the concrete and nobody in doubt It's a fire drill party, everybody out [Verse 2: Hard-house male MC, faster, every line on the clap] First kick hit the plaza and accounting looked around Then the lady from payroll put her coffee on the ground Legal took their ties off and they swung 'em overhead Sales made a circle and the boss went red IT in the fountain and they dancin' in the spray Forty floors of people never had a Friday like today Then the marshal walked up slow with the clipboard in his hand And the whole plaza froze 'cause he's the man in command Nine hundred people starin' at a man in a vest And the new guy on nine with a speaker on his chest [Breakdown: Hard-house male MC, clipboard smack, the beat stops on the smack of the clipboard hitting the concrete, then the hard-house kick slams back] He looked me in the eye and he let the clipboard go Said, I run this drill twice a year, son, run it back, one more Hard house on the plaza, every lanyard in the air Fire marshal in the middle with his hands up everywhere Payroll on the fountain and the legal team in line Best fire drill in the history of floor number nine [Final Hook: Hard-house male MC, full kick, rowdy hard-house hook, everybody in] Fire drill Friday and the whole tower out Lanyards in the air and the plaza in a shout Nine hundred on the concrete and nobody in doubt It's a fire drill party, everybody out [End]
