[Intro: piano chords and warm pads, no drums] [Verse 1: half time filtered breakbeat] One room on Smith Street, fourth floor, and the window sticks A yellow couch he would have laughed at, and I love every stitch Cereal for dinner, barefoot, standing by the stove And nobody's in the doorway telling me that's not how it goes [Pre-Chorus] For six years I laughed into my sleeve 'Cause he said it was too much when we were out I learned to sing in the car with the windows up Learned to cry in the shower so it didn't count [Chorus: full rolling breakbeats] Out loud, out loud I'm laughing out loud Singing every word wrong in a room where nobody turns me down Out loud, out loud I can cry out loud Every sound I swallowed for six years is coming out now [Verse 2: half time filtered breakbeat] He chose the restaurants, my shoes, and which of my friends could stay He kept the heater on nineteen and kept the password to my pay And the morning that I left I didn't slam it, didn't scream I just closed the door so softly, like I'd practiced it for weeks Now the heater's on twenty six, and I'm barefoot in July In the middle of a Melbourne winter, and nobody asks me why [Pre-Chorus] For six years I said sorry for the noise For the kettle, for my shoes on the stairs I learned to make myself so small That even I forgot that I was there [Chorus: full rolling breakbeats] Out loud, out loud I'm laughing out loud Singing every word wrong in a room where nobody turns me down Out loud, out loud I can cry out loud Every sound I swallowed for six years is coming out now [Bridge: breakbeats drop out, piano and pads only] Eleven o'clock, a knock at the door And my whole body goes back six years I'm halfway into sorry, I'll turn it down Before I even know who's standing here [Spoken: older woman, dry and warm] Love, I heard you singing. You're flat. I've got a bottle of red. Can I come in? [Post-Bridge: breakbeats build back] And I laugh, I laugh so hard I'm holding on the frame And she says, now that's a laugh, love, and she asks me for my name [Final Chorus: full rolling breakbeats] Out loud, out loud We're laughing out loud Two flat voices singing wrong in a room where nobody turns us down Out loud, out loud I can live out loud Every sound I swallowed for six years, I'm taking back now [Outro: piano and pads] [Spoken: older woman] Turn it up [Female lead] I'm turning it up
