[Intro] [low starship engine hum, loud and close] [cryo door seal hiss, frost cracking, no drums] [soft mechanical scanning tone counting crates] [Vendor Chant] [radio voice, dry and close, an old man reading an order] [drums follow every syllable, heavy swing, filtered low] Kuiper whiskey, Kuiper whiskey aquavit grappa palinka, palinka slivovitz grappa [Verse 1] [quiet close croon, breath in the cold] Dead moon, no wind copper coil, blue flame cook it slow at night nobody knows my name [short silence] Cold door opens frost runs off the glass first minute's only quiet nothing's moving yet [Chorus] [filter opening, sub bass starts to breathe] Load it in the dark (easy now) twelve crates in the hold every one still sleeping every one still cold I don't feel it starting I don't feel a thing only the hum only the ring [Verse 2] [distortion on the word Guild] Licensed light in the city Guild on every wire I make what they can't sell out of moon and fire [short silence] Somewhere two moons over a boy is fast asleep everything I cook is something he can keep [Bridge] [everything drops out except the engine hum and the scanning tone] Count it [silence] (twelve) [Vendor Chant] [radio voice, drums follow every syllable, filter wider, kick moving toward four on the floor] Kuiper whiskey, Kuiper whiskey aquavit grappa palinka, palinka slivovitz grappa [Chorus] [full sidechain breathing, thin wordless choir enters far behind] Load it in the dark (easy now) twelve crates in the hold every one still sleeping every one still cold I don't feel it starting I don't feel a thing only the hum only the ring [Outro] [engine hum swelling as the ship lifts, chant fading to one word] Grappa [hard cut, no fade]
