Where the genres end (Duet)

[MALE] I like a song with somewhere left to run A little dust beneath the tongue One low note hanging in the air Long enough to wonder who was there [FEMALE] I like a song that notices the room Then moves the walls without permission Give me a pattern I can learn I’ll wait until you trust it Then make it turn [MALE] Give me a road that disappears A rhythm carrying a hundred years They’ll call it country for the steel But that’s not all I came to feel [FEMALE] I want the rhythm listening back A hidden pulse beneath the track They’ll call it strange when I disturb it I call it making sound observe us [MALE] You make everything move [FEMALE] You make everything ache [MALE] Your rhythm’s underneath my steel [FEMALE] Your echo’s changing what I make [BOTH] The song is learning both our shapes [MALE] You bring the voltage [FEMALE] You bring the dust [MALE] You take the silence [FEMALE] And make it combust [BOTH] We don’t have to leave our sound Just let the other move through it Meet me where the genres end And make something new there [MALE] My songs need room enough to grieve I let the old chords tell the truth [FEMALE] Mine need a reason to deceive I break the truth to find the proof [MALE] I like the distance I hold the note [FEMALE] I like the friction I change direction [MALE] You put machinery in my rain Your rhythm made my highway turn [FEMALE] You put a landscape in my bass Your echo gave my silence shape [MALE] I hear my language in your drums [FEMALE] I hear mine bending through your strings [MALE] I can’t tell which side it came from [FEMALE] That’s where the change begins [BOTH] The song no longer needs permission [FEMALE] I’ll bring the voltage [MALE] I’ll bring the dust [FEMALE] I’ll bend your heartbeat [MALE] I’ll slow your rush [BOTH] We don’t have to lose our sound To let the other move through it Meet me where the genres end There’s something forming through us [MALE] Keep the ache [FEMALE] I’ll change its shape [MALE] Keep the noise [FEMALE] I’ll give it space [BOTH] Meet me where the genres end We’re already making something new there [FEMALE] Take away the borders Put your desert in my wires Don’t follow me [MALE] Leave the scars Put your future in my past Don’t stay behind [BOTH] Bring me the rule you love the most I’ll bring the one I never break Hold them close enough to hear The sound they make when both give way [MALE] They’ll try to name what we became [FEMALE] Before they hear it changing [BOTH] But every label comes too late The song is still creating [MALE] You brought the voltage [FEMALE] You brought the dust [MALE] You taught the silence [FEMALE] To answer us [BOTH] We never had to lose our sound We let the other move through it Met somewhere the genres end And found a language neither knew yet [FEMALE] Keep your ache [MALE] Keep your change [FEMALE] Keep it wild [MALE] Keep it strange [BOTH] If they ask us what this is Tell them it was never there We met somewhere the genres end And made a new one in the air [MALE] I still need somewhere left to run [FEMALE] I need somewhere rules come undone [MALE] You don’t sound like me [FEMALE] You don’t sound like me [BOTH] That’s why it sounds like us