[INTRO — INSTRUMENTAL — DUSTY BREAKBEATS + WARM RHODES + MUTED TRUMPET + HYPNOTIC BASS — SWIRLING GUITAR FEEDBACK — NO VOCALS] --- [VERSE 1 — MALE LEAD: LOW, SMOKY, CLOSE-MIC — RESTRAINED, CONVERSATIONAL — SLIGHTLY GRITTY] I bought a man's shadow underneath the Rialto Folded it twice, kept it under my coat At the midnight market, nobody asked names They weighed what was missing and counted the change I know the alleys where the streetlamps bow And the rooms where the furniture shifts when I turn around --- [PRE-CHORUS — MALE LEAD: QUIETER, SLOWLY RISING — HYPNOTIC — RHODES AND BASS PULSING UNDERNEATH] But this morning, the pavement had nothing for me No dark shape following where I used to be Somebody had taken what belonged to me --- [CHORUS — MALE LEAD: CONFIDENT, SOULFUL, HYPNOTIC — MEMORABLE NOIR REFRAIN — WIDER HARMONIES] Who's wearing my shadow tonight? Moving through places I've never seen Who's wearing my shadow tonight? Leaving dark fingerprints on the city I follow its shape, but it slips through the night Who's wearing my shadow tonight? --- [INSTRUMENTAL GROOVE — 4 BARS — DUSTY BREAKBEAT + RHODES RIFF + HYPNOTIC BASS + MUTED JAZZ HORN — NO VOCALS] --- [VERSE 2 — MALE LEAD: MORE CONFIDENT — TIGHTER RHYTHMIC PHRASING — SMOKY INTENSITY] I found it dancing in a shuttered cinema Two rows from the screen where the projector still ran Then it crossed through the wall of a basement club Where a woman sold darkness by the cut Three faces watched me from a photograph All three were people the city said never came back --- [CHORUS — MALE LEAD: CONFIDENT, HYPNOTIC — SOULFUL MELODIC LIFT — MUTED HORN RESPONSES] Who's wearing my shadow tonight? Moving through places I've never seen Who's wearing my shadow tonight? Leaving dark fingerprints on the city I follow its shape, but it slips through the night Who's wearing my shadow tonight? --- [BRIDGE — MALE LEAD: LOW, INTIMATE, NEAR-WHISPER — BEAT THINS TO RHODES + SUB-BASS + DISTANT GUITAR] At the last club, the bartender knew my face Said he'd poured my drink here forty years ago Seven coats hung over seven empty chairs Seven glasses held the warmth of vanished hands And mine was waiting for me by the door --- [INSTRUMENTAL BREAK — 8 BARS — BREAKBEAT OPENS UP — REVERB-SOAKED GUITAR SWELLS + JAZZ PIANO VOICINGS + MUTED TRUMPET PHRASES + HYPNOTIC BASS — CINEMATIC BUILD] --- [FINAL CHORUS — MALE LEAD: FULL, CONFIDENT, SMOKY — CONTROLLED INTENSITY — WIDE HARMONIES + NOIR JAZZ RESPONSES] Who's wearing my shadow tonight? Moving through places I've never seen Who's wearing my shadow tonight? Leaving dark fingerprints on the city Every missing face knows where it goes Every dead name leaves a door unlocked I follow the shape through streets that rearrange Till it steps into my outline and walks away --- [OUTRO — INSTRUMENTAL — DUSTY BREAKBEAT + WARM RHODES + HYPNOTIC BASS — MUTED HORN FADES — GUITAR REVERB TRAILS INTO SILENCE]
