[PROLOGUE] ROXI: (Speak alone; warm and cheeky.) One last thing, you beautiful troublemakers. I'm leaving you something for the walk home. Four notes. Like this. ROXI: (Sing unaccompanied, D-F#-E-D; one beat per word.) Take this noise home. [INTRO] [CROWD]: (Sing the four-note reply together.) Take this noise home! [JILL]: (Electric bass enters; turn the hook into a low fingerstyle riff at 108 BPM.) [MILFRED]: (Modern acoustic drum kit enters; firm kick, snare, swung hi-hat sixteenths.) [SEPHYR-GLEN]: (Concert grand enters; short offbeat chords, rising right-hand replies.) ROXI: (Overdriven electric guitar enters; clipped chord chops, then one long blues bend.) [LIZ]: (Uilleann pipes enter; D drone, ornamented replies between vocal phrases.) [VERSE 1] ROXI: (Sing with smoky Nordic bite; guitar chops between lines.) Your coat's on the chair, but your feet haven't left, Somebody's laughing on a breath they should have kept. That crooked little grin's getting passed along the row— I've got one more spark. Where the hell should it go? Not framed on a wall with a date underneath, Not polished till it shines and forgets it has teeth. Let it miss the bus. Let it wake the street. Let it turn up tomorrow in your tapping feet. [CHORUS] ROXI: (Open, punchy melody; leave each reply two full bars.) What are you taking? [CROWD]: (Sing the taught hook.) Take this noise home! ROXI: (Sing, relaxed behind the beat.) Let it rattle in your shoes. Let the kettle sing the high part— It can have the notes we lose. What are you taking? [CROWD]: (Repeat the hook.) Take this noise home! ROXI: (Rich low melody.) When the streetlights catch your grin, You don't need to keep the ticket For the night to wander in. [INSTRUMENTAL LIFT] [JILL]: (Eight bars; develop the hook with sharp pops and climbing runs, then land a deep D pedal.) [SEPHYR-GLEN]: (Over the pedal, roll piano chords D-C-G; return the hook in octaves.) [MILFRED]: (Open hats to ride; descending toms cue the next eight bars.) [LIZ]: (Lead eight bars on pipes; ornament the hook, climb an octave, leave rests.) ROXI: (Guitar answers each pipe rest with fast legato, then a wide bend. Join its final hook in unison.) [VERSE 2] [JILL]: (Drop to soft low notes and muted pickups.) [MILFRED]: (Cross-stick and quiet kick; keep the tempo.) [SEPHYR-GLEN]: (Single piano notes above open chords.) [LIZ]: (Close chanter and stop drones.) ROXI: (Clean guitar arpeggios; sing close, no grand delivery.) Someone will hum it while looking for keys, Someone will lose it halfway through the week. Someone will hear it with somebody new— A room full of strangers, a ridiculous tune. You don't owe this night a perfect memory. You don't owe these words a place they have to stay. If you lose the song by morning, You haven't thrown tonight away. [FINAL CHORUS] [MILFRED]: (Full kick/snare groove returns; cymbal lift, no tempo change.) [JILL]: (Bring back the riff with hard fingerstyle attack.) [SEPHYR-GLEN]: (Rolling gospel chords; lift the final phrase.) [LIZ]: (Pipes return with the hook above a D drone.) ROXI: (Overdriven guitar chords; full smoky alto.) Take this noise home! [CROWD]: (Sing back.) Take this noise home! Let it rattle in your shoes. Let the kettle sing the high part— It can have the notes we lose! [OUTRO] [MILFRED]: (One final snare and kick; stop.) [SEPHYR-GLEN]: (Short D chord; damp and stop.) [JILL]: (Low D; mute completely.) [LIZ]: (Last hook; close chanter and drones.) ROXI: (Mute guitar. Speak into the silence.) You were a fucking pleasure. Last one belongs to you. [CROWD]: (Alone, sing D-F#-E-D once, softly. Hold the final word, then stop; no applause.) Take this noise home. [END]
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