[Intro] [market square at dawn, crowd murmuring, wordless choir full and steady, no engine hum anywhere] [no drums] [Vendor Chant] [the whole crowd chants softly together, Tal's voice somewhere inside it, drums follow every syllable] Watermelon, watermelon coconut lemon banana, banana Ellery lemon [Verse 1] [quiet close croon, still] Sat down in the square didn't run today hood down off my head let the morning stay [short silence] Guild man walked right by cartel at the stall preacher looked me through didn't see me at all [Chorus] [sidechain barely breathing, choir full, stacked hook harmonies] Room temperature (same as you) nothing left to chase nothing left to hide every face in the square the same as mine inside everybody looking everybody blind I could walk out free and leave the boy behind [Verse 2] [distortion on the word free] Little girl came by lamp still burning bright only one who saw me in the morning light [short silence] Only one cold word left in all of me one more run to make one I make for free [Bridge] [everything drops out except the crowd's chant drums] Ellery [silence] [Tal, barely a breath] (one more run) [silence] [Vendor Chant] [the whole crowd chants softly together, drums follow every syllable] Watermelon, watermelon coconut lemon banana, banana Ellery lemon [Chorus] [full choir steady, sidechain barely breathing] Room temperature (same as you) nothing left to chase nothing left to hide every face in the square the same as mine inside everybody looking everybody blind I could walk out free and leave the boy behind [Outro] [the crowd stops chanting, Tal alone, whispered] Ellery [hard cut, no fade]
