[Hook: Snarling gutter-voiced male MC, gutter-voiced, low and close] Don't slow down, I'm right beside you Same speed, same sweat, but I don't sweat like you do Belt keep turning and the night keep running round Three in the morning, baby, don't slow down [Verse 1: Snarling gutter-voiced male MC, gutter-voiced, snarling] Twenty-four hours, but the desk clears at three Night kid grabs his keys and he leaves it to me Halloween, one runner, earbuds in tight Running off the candy in the cold white light Row of forty treadmills and he picked number nine I step on ten and I match him, line for line He looks over once, sees a hood and a stride Dials it up to eight and I dial up beside He gets cocky, gets loud, goes ten point two Every number that he punches, I'm punching it too Never touched my buttons, but the screen reads the same Distance, pace and calories, and a blank for the name [Hook: Snarling gutter-voiced male MC, gutter-voiced, low and close] Don't slow down, I'm right beside you Same speed, same sweat, but I don't sweat like you do Belt keep turning and the night keep running round Three in the morning, baby, don't slow down [Verse 2: Snarling gutter-voiced male MC, gutter-voiced, colder] Here's the rule they don't post on the board by the door Halloween after three, there's a race on the floor Two runners side by side and the belts never quit Whoever slows first is the one that I get Last year a big man in a tank top and chain Hit the red stop button, nobody's seen him again His towel's in the lost and found, his shoes by the scale Thirteen runners gone and the night kid never tells Now the kid on nine got his chest going wild Looking at the screen like a lost little child I can hear his heart and it's banging like a door Don't you slow, don't you slow, that's what the legs are for [Bridge: Snarling gutter-voiced male MC, lights-out sprint, every light in the gym dies] Lights go out and the whole row goes black Only the screens glowing and the belts going clack Fourteen, fifteen, he's flat out, can't breathe I don't breathe, I don't sweat, and I don't ever leave [Verse 3: Snarling gutter-voiced male MC, gutter-voiced, slowing] Ten to six and the sun's coming in through the glass First time in thirty Halloweens I'm the one fading fast He's crying, he's screaming, but his legs keep on I'm slowing, I'm slowing, and the dark's almost gone Morning girl unlocks and she flips on the fans Finds a kid on number nine with his face in his hands Treadmill ten switched off with a sign on the screen Out of order, do not use, and I'm kept in the machine [Final Hook: Snarling gutter-voiced male MC, gutter-voiced, low and close] Don't slow down, I'm right beside you Same speed, same sweat, but I don't sweat like you do Belt keep turning and the night keep running round Three in the morning, baby, don't slow down [End]
