[Intro — spoken deep-baritone half-whisper, falsetto vocalization above, bass drops bar 5] Monaco. Zero one hundred. Five ghosts through the lobby. (ah ah ah ah) Field's clean. Move. [Verse 1 — technical rap, elastic bass hemiola, Rhodes off-beat stabs, congas 3:2 over kit] Marble floors, chandeliers, we on the RF Sapphire under glass center of the room Camera loop set — feed's clean, hallway empty (empty) Private elevator, thirty-second window opening (open) Point man in the ballroom, no shadows on the frequency (yet) [Pre-Chorus — modal shift to F# Dorian, airy falsetto lead with 7-note melisma on "flowers"] Silk between the flowers Champagne raised — they can't see me sliding past Diplomat, celebrity, security Slip through, I'm way too fast [Chorus — silky spinto tenor lead, falsetto stack thirds/sixths, tritone subs, full pocket, melisma tails on "fire" and "gone"] Sapphire (sapphire) Blue fire (blue fire) Sapphire fire in Monte Carlo Watch us glide, watch us go By the time you turn around, we're already gone [Verse 2 — deep baritone rap-sung, controlled tension, cross-stick displaced, elastic bass forward] Ballroom on fire, every crown stares Sapphire under glass at the top of the stairs Valen and Kira arrive — the pair who put down gods The killers of the deathless, the killers of their own Silk on silk, we glide across the marble Monte Carlo blue in the pocket, gone [Instrumental — Rhodes bebop solo over elastic acid bass, 8 bars, no vocals] [Pre-Chorus — denser, big-band riser builds, snap snare on 4, falsetto ornaments harder] Silk between the flowers Valen on the hunt, Kira on our tail Killers sippin Krug they onto the game Too fast to catch too smooth to fail [Chorus — falsetto stack fatter, gang-vocal choir on hook, full pocket, sidechain pumping] Sapphire (sapphire) Blue fire (blue fire) Sapphire fire in Monte Carlo Watch us glide, watch us go By the time you turn around, we're already gone [Bridge — metric modulation, quarter = dotted quarter, stretched time. Stripped to walking bass + Rhodes + brushed cross-stick. Clear lyric tenor close-miked dry. 4-VOICE CANON on the "Gone" lines — entries staggered by 2 beats: tenor, then falsetto octave up, then baritone octave down, then rapper spoken.] Vault open. Sapphire in my hand. Valen won't hear it. Gone. Gone gone gone gone. Sapphire fire in Monte Carlo Watch us glide, watch us go By the time you turn around, we're already gone By the time Valen makes the vault, we're at the harbor By the time Kira turns — we're gone [Outro — tenor solo, falsetto vocalization above, tapering in A Aeolian, ends unresolved on Eb tritone over Am, no cadence] We're already gone [Outro — tenor solo, falsetto vocalization above, tapering in A Aeolian, ends unresolved on Eb tritone over Am, no cadence] We're already gone (ah ah ah — fading)
