[Intro] [market crowd cut off, footsteps on steel stairs, wordless choir dark and close] [no drums] [Vendor Chant] [old man's chant far away through the walls, drums follow every syllable] Watermelon, watermelon coconut lemon banana, banana Ellery lemon [Verse 1] [quiet close croon, tense, distortion on the word coil] Three men in the stairwell one man at the door asking for the coil like they've asked before [short silence] Asked for slivovitz like they read it off a list said they heard the old man call a name they couldn't miss [Spoken] [a low cold male voice, spoken, very close] (where's the boy) [Chorus] [sidechain bass pressing hard, four on the floor driving, choir dark] Slivovitz not on the shelf not in the hold not for yourself you can have the coil you can have the flame you can take my hands you don't say his name (not him) [Verse 2] [distortion on the word name] Blade along the rail warm across my side first thing in a year I felt from the inside [short silence] Put them on the floor one and two and three walked back up the stairs nobody followed me [Bridge] [everything drops out except the chant drums far away] Ellery [silence] [one raw licensed scream, the only scream on the album] [silence] [Vendor Chant] [old man's chant still calling through the walls, drums follow every syllable] Watermelon, watermelon coconut lemon banana, banana Ellery lemon [Chorus] [raw voice, sidechain pressing, choir dark and full] Slivovitz not on the shelf not in the hold not for yourself you can have the coil you can have the flame you can take my hands you don't say his name (not him) [Outro] [footsteps climbing, chant fading to one word] Ellery [hard cut, no fade]
