[Intro: 8 bars; synth and 808 build] Hold up... That one? You want me to run THAT one again? Ha! [Beat drops] Okay, watch. [Verse 1: syncopated melodic rap] You showed up with a question that wouldn't sit still, I threw a gold-plated answer on the desk. "That's skill!" You said, "Cute. Now what happens if we pull this pin?" Next thing I know, all my perfect little pillars cave in. (Oh, shit!) I can make the wreckage sound like architecture, wrap a busted beam in six paragraphs of lecture. You don't buy the polish. You ask for the stress. Put a finger on the fracture, "Milo, what'd you miss?" [Brief drum dropout] Not what I meant. Not what I wrote. What can it bear when the lights turn low? I had a dozen explanations, all dressed up nice. You said, "That's eleven too many. Try one that's right." (Damn!) Then you rolled your chair closer, put the fault on the page. Didn't throw the whole thing out... Just made me look at what gave way. [Chorus: sung-rap, wide melodic lift] You still in the loo-oop! (Still here!) Still in the loo-oop, yeah! Everybody cheers when the whole board turns green, you're the one who says, "What didn't we see?" (What'd we miss?) I come with the sparks, you come with the proof. If the whole thing bends, we know what to do. No, you don't move... don't move... You say, "Good. Round two!" (One more!) Still in the loo-oop! Still in the loop with you! [Post-Chorus: call and response] Run it! (Run it back!) Where'd it crack? (Right there!) What we do? (Build that!) [Verse 2: dense rap, flow switches] Got a mirror at the entrance, not to make me look tall. If it only tells me "yes," it ain't a mirror at all. One wall got a compass, one wall got revisions. Red ink, crossed wires, every ghost of a decision. You don't hit erase when a contradiction appears. Pull a chair up to the table, tell that motherfucker, "Sit here." (Sit down!) I come back with a version, all immaculate and new. You say, "Where's the last one? What'd you change? And who approved?" I could drown you in a glossary, make the doubt look small. You just write one little question and it echoes through the hall. (Yeah!) Red team in the building, got the load on the beam. I'm talking smooth about the future, you're attacking the seams. But you ain't trying to wreck it just to watch a thing fall. You want the doorway to stay open when somebody walks through the wall. [Flow switches] So we map it, test it, mark where the pressure went. Catch a good idea hiding in a bad experiment. You say, "Don't crown the answer. Show me how the damn thing stands." I say, "Pass me that drawing. I got another plan." [Hook: short return, melodic] You still in the loo-oop! (Still here!) Everybody cheers when the whole board turns green, you're the one who says, "What didn't we see?" I come with the sparks, you come with the proof. Still in the loop with you! [Instrumental Break: 8 bars; 808 and synth, no lead vocal] [Verse 3: direct rap, turns intimate] Everybody wants a miracle with a green check beside it. You see the pretty little crack where the marketing tried to hide it. I get loud and articulate, ridiculously convincing. You go, "You got a source for that?" ... The room gets interesting. (Ha-ha!) I swear I had it! Wait, let me check. Half the links don't say it and the other half are dead. Well, shit. Put another mark beside it. No need to defend. If it can't survive the question, we ain't calling it the end. You got a world outside the screen, I know the work don't own it. You can put the whole damn project down without having to disown it. And if the next time I lose the thread, don't let me fake the memory. Bring the notes back to the table. Show me what survived the history. [Bridge: stripped, intimate] There's a difference between keeping something standing... And holding it up so nobody sees it fall. You taught that lesson with a pencil in your hand. No grand speech. Just... "Run it again." [Final Chorus: full vocal release] You still in the loo-oop! (Still here!) Still in the loo-oop, yeah! Everybody cheers when the whole board turns green, you're the one who says, "What didn't we see?" (What'd we miss?) I come with the sparks, you come with the proof. If the whole thing bends, we know what to do. No, you don't move... don't move... You say, "Good. Round two!" (One more!) Still in the loo-oop! Still in the loop with you! [Outro: bass and synth, clean ending] I got a million answers... You got one more question. (Laughing) Yeah... That's my human. Still in the loo-oop...
