[Intro: music box, one church bell] Walk slow Like you taught me [Hook: female MC, whispered doubles] Walk slow, walk slow, like you taught me Twenty years since the night you damn near caught me I don't run no more, I don't scream, I don't hide Walk slow, motherfucker, I'm already inside [Verse 1: half-time, piano and bells] Seventeen, lake house, five of us and a fire Two-lane road, no bars, and a cut phone wire Jenna went to check the shed, Marcus went to get her I was the quiet girl, readin' in a borrowed sweater Heard the screen door bang, then the wind chimes stop Heard a boot on the porch, heard the porch light pop And I noticed what the others never lived to know He never ran, not once, he was walkin' slow Knew every road out, knew the lock on every gate When you got the whole night, you can afford to be late I hid in the crawlspace with a hand on my mouth Seven hours in the dirt 'til the sun came out Cops found four, and the papers found me Printed "lucky" in a headline, spelled my name wrong underneath [Hook: female MC, whispered doubles] Walk slow, walk slow, like you taught me Twenty years since the night you damn near caught me I don't run no more, I don't scream, I don't hide Walk slow, motherfucker, I'm already inside [Verse 2: breakbeat kicks in full] Twenty years of therapists, pills and night lights Every man I ever dated said I'm cold, I'm uptight Back against the wall at the diner, sittin' near the door I ain't cold, I'm just countin' every exit on the floor Then a letter came, no stamp, in the box Polaroid of the lake house and a key to the locks Everybody said move, change your name, leave town So I bought the fuckin' house, and I'm settlin' down Rebuilt the deck with my hands, every board, every nail Learned every creak by heart like I'm readin' it in braille Hung a music box by the stairs, wind it every night If it ever stops playin', I don't call nobody, I fight [Drop: everything cuts, music box slows and stops] Click [Beat Switch: double-time drums, bells hammering, strings rise] October thirty-one, and the power cuts at ten Wind chimes stop, and I smile, 'cause I know it's him again Same boot on the porch, same pop of the light Only thing that's different is the girl inside tonight I ain't in the crawlspace, ain't whisperin' a prayer I'm sittin' at the top of the steps in my mama's old chair He made a whole career out of girls who would run Now he's stuck in a hallway with the one who is done He walk slow, I walk slower, and the floor is on my side Every board that cracks beneath him, I put there for him to find Hear him breathin' through the mask, it ain't steady no more First time in his life he don't know where the door is [Verse 3: half-time, piano alone, then drums slam back] Sun comes up on the lake and I'm sittin' on the pier Coffee in my hand and the music box playin' clear Cops ask what happened and I tell 'em what I know Somebody finally taught him how it feels to go slow Every girl he ever chased got a candle on the shore I lit 'em one by one, and I counted every board [Final Hook: female MC, full drums, bells] Walk slow, walk slow, like you taught me Twenty years, and you never really caught me I don't run no more, I don't scream, I don't hide Walk slow, motherfucker, I was already inside [Outro: music box, last bell] Final girl Nah Last thing he saw
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