[Instrumental Cold Open] (fractured footwork kick clusters, deep rounded sub, wide spectral pads) [Verse 1] The door opens before I knock She’s holding A black rubbish bag And a roll of silver tape “You’re early.” Not a complaint Just information Behind her One speaker is still on the floor A cable crosses the doorway Someone in the kitchen Is breaking ice With the back of a spoon I offer to come back She moves aside instead So I step in Holding my coat With nowhere obvious to put it [Hook] Five minutes early The room is still itself Kitchen light Tape against the wall One song playing much too low Then somebody turns the volume up The bass finds the floor Give it five minutes I won’t recognise this place anymore [Instrumental Passage] (rapid asymmetric footwork groove, thick sub movement, spectral chords opening wide) [Verse 2] I help move a chair Twenty centimetres left Apparently That matters The rubbish bag disappears Behind a closed door Bottles line the counter A lamp gets switched off And suddenly The corner turns blue First knock Then another Two coats land Where mine finally went A woman I’ve never met Hands me a glass As if I’ve been here all evening By the fourth arrival Nobody notices I was early [Hook] Five minutes early The room is still itself Kitchen light Tape against the wall One song playing much too low Then somebody turns the volume up The bass finds the floor Give it five minutes I won’t recognise this place anymore [Extended Instrumental] (dense footwork pulse, deep sub, suspended spectral harmony, short vocal-free electronic motif) [Final Section] Now the cable Is hidden under shoes The chair we moved Has moved again Someone’s sitting On the kitchen counter The light I thought was broken Was apparently meant to flicker I look toward the doorway Another three people arrive Nobody asks Who came first Good [Music strips briefly to sub and voice] Five minutes early Was just long enough To see the trick [Final Instrumental] (fast footwork rhythm gradually dissolving into wide spectral pads and deep isolated sub pulses)
