[Intro dry room hum clipped skank guitar nervous walking bass faux easy] Billy stop me at the door say host no smoke mon say it flat like weather say it once and leave it on me The jin shew-wen tea came soft and I kept on drinking it soft like mercy ought to be wrong like hell for me [Verse dry close mic vocal frayed edge trying to sound cool] Everybody in that room got easier but me host sank back wife went gentle Billy the cat sat there like a shut dark window thin eyes holding midnight not one card showing I kept drinking jin shew-wen tea gold and floral and mean hands need something when the want comes scratching and there was not one decent thing to hold No smoke no green no little handrail left just sweet leaf and borrowed manners winding every wire tighter in my hide I tried to sit there decent tried to keep my knee from jumping tried to keep my puppet grin from slipping and showing all the teeth behind it [Pre Chorus bass forward vocal more watchful] Billy ask about the beach first real casual real clean little water little walk little air after tea Then wife say stream say rabbit same way folks say weather may turn and Billy get smoother than he needed which is how I know something moved [Chorus sudden pop crack brighter hook desperate singalong surface] Good guest good guess everything is fine Billy keeps him level I am trying to Good guest good guess everything is fine too much jin shew-wen tea and I am coming loose [Verse tighter guitar drier and sharper] Billy never cared for rabbits too much jump and blur and gone too much panic in the muscle too much scatter with no bone So why that careful kind of quiet why that level little tone why let the host carry the reason for a road he half had known He make it sound like their idea like he only tagging on cause decent guests do not refuse a kindness and decent men do not lean too hard Not above it not dismissing just hiding any pull inside good manners same way some old cats hide a claw My tail would show if I had one his never does that is the trade one of us is stitched from nerves and twine one of us was born to wait I said nothing already got led once and a puppet learns to hold his jaw when deep water goes too glassy [Chorus pop crack bigger but more damaged] Good guest good guess everything is fine Billy wears the first one I get stuck with the lie Good guest good guess everything is fine head full of jin shew-wen tea body gone too fast [Bridge low dub space walk pulse melodica ghost] So we step out with the house behind us past the edge of light and talk beach still hanging somewhere in the language but the stream done win the walk Small stream real stream roots stones local dark the kind of water that knows a thing before the thing gives up its shape Host move like they know the footing wife like she always knew Billy keep him surface level I keep bracing in my throat My head keep knocking from the inside my jaw keep chewing air trying to act like a man in company while feeling like a live wire in a chair [Verse sparse stream hush almost spoken] Then there he was by the water TuTuRo short and sweet not prey not blur not built for bolt small and still like the stream sit down to breathe No trick no show just enough to make me hate how calm Billy was the whole damn way there A rabbit that do not move like rabbit that was the whole trouble in the night and Billy never gave himself away he just stood there being right [Final Chorus full jump still frayed] Good guest good guess everything is fine there by that stream stood one that was not made to run Good guest good guess everything is fine I can sing it pretty but it still is not [Outro sly bass one small smile] Walking back the host say drink like night had one more room and Billy let one small smile loose thin as a match in bad weather Then him say it near to nothing morning by de stream suit me mon and there it was the whole hidden road finally speaking in one line
