[INTRO — instrumental, upright bass walking, dusty drums, sax lick] [HOOK — group chant, big and warm] Chair number two, chair number two (sit down!) Fade so clean and the advice is too Twenty-five a cut, but the wisdom's free Best-kept secret on the whole side street Chair number two, chair number two (sit down!) He been cutting heads since '92 Don't just fix your hair, he fix your week Everybody's uncle on the whole side street [VERSE 1 — urgent melodic flow] Tony's shop between the cleaners and the check-cash place (uh) Same four chairs, same calendar, same smiling face On the wall with every mayor and two B-list stars Says he cut they hair — we don't know if they his Don't matter — what matters is the Saturday line Dads with sons, first cuts, little capes, little cries Turned to lollipops and photos for the fridge back home Man's been documenting childhoods since before the phone Knew my father by his sideburns, knew my uncle by his wave Knew I lost my job before I said it — said it with a shave Of his head — sit down, boy — and he talked about his own Three bad years in the eighties, how he never lost his tone [HOOK — group chant, big and warm] Chair number two, chair number two (sit down!) Fade so clean and the advice is too Twenty-five a cut, but the wisdom's free Best-kept secret on the whole side street Chair number two, chair number two (sit down!) He been cutting heads since '92 Don't just fix your hair, he fix your week Everybody's uncle on the whole side street [VERSE 2 — playful flow, half-sung] He don't do appointments, he don't do the online thing Cash only, conversations, and a radio that sings Nothing after '98 — he says the drums got lazy While his clippers do a fade so sharp it's crazy Kids come in as babies, leave as grooms He got a photo wall that's better than a tomb Of fame — every smile he ever lined up right Proof a man's whole life can fit in four chairs tight I asked him when he quitting, he said look around the shop Long as heads keep growing, why would Tony stop [HOOK — group chant, full stack] Chair number two, chair number two (sit down!) Fade so clean and the advice is too Twenty-five a cut, but the wisdom's free Best-kept secret on the whole side street [OUTRO — sax rides, chant fades] (chair number two... sit down...) Same time in two weeks Tony remembers
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