[Intro - Female spoken] Cheap cider in a paper cup expensive perfume on my wrist I showed up looking like I did not plan this I planned this [Verse 1 - Female rap] I wore the good scent like armor and a dare You smelled like cut grass and a truck that needs air Paper cup, sticky rim, orchard light going thin You said "try this one" like the night could begin on two dollars and a smile that did not check my zip code I checked yours with my eyes, then I loosened the load City girl, county line, perfume cutting through the cold I talk fast when I like someone, always have, always told myself to slow it down, then I sped it up again You leaned on the fence like a man who knows when to let a girl finish a sentence and still look impressed Cheap cider, expensive perfume, both of us dressed in the version of ourselves we bring when it matters I left the city playlist in the car. Let the chatter of the fair and the moths and the gravel do the rest If this is a collision, call it lucky, call it blessed [Pre-Chorus - Female sung] I did not come for the apples I came for the proof that a night like this can still tell the truth [Verse 2 - Male country] She smelled like a downtown window and a late reservation I smelled like the cooler and a long explanation of why I still buy cider from a stand off the road She laughed at the styrofoam, then she took the whole load of my bad jokes and my good jacket and my slower way of talking I watched her lipstick leave a mark on the cup I kept walking beside her like the gravel was a red carpet we invented Cheap cider in my hand, expensive everything she presented without trying too hard, which is the hardest kind of try Stadium season starting, leaves starting to die and here we are in the middle of a paper-cup night I do not know her middle name. I know she feels right [Pre-Chorus - Male sung] I did not come for the fair lights I came for the sound of somebody new who still hangs around [Chorus - Both] Cheap cider, expensive perfume two worlds in one breath in the same little room of a night that should not work and somehow it does Your hand finds my sleeve like it already was Cheap cider, expensive perfume sweet on the tongue, sharp in the air, full bloom If the season is turning, let it turn us soft Cheap cider, expensive perfume, do not write us off [Verse 3 - Female rap] I can name the notes in this bottle on my neck bergamot, something warm, something I will not check against your cheap cider pride, against your simple yes I like complicated. I also like this mess of sticky fingers and a jacket that is not my size You keep offering the cup like sharing is a prize and it is. Do not act like small things do not count when the big things are still learning how to mount a defense against a girl who raps her feelings clean I am not soft. I am clear. There is a difference in between the perfume and the cider is the whole damn point I stay for the collision. I stay for the joint [Verse 4 - Male country] I never thought a scent could make a truck smell better Until it did, and then I wrote that letter in my head I will not send, about a night with a cup and a girl who talks in paragraphs and still keeps up with a man who measures time in fields and Friday lights Cheap cider on the dash, expensive claim on the night If this is too early to mean it, I mean the try I mean the way she laughed when the moth hit the sky [Chorus - Both, bigger] Cheap cider, expensive perfume two worlds in one breath in the same little room of a night that should not work and somehow it does Your hand finds my sleeve like it already was Cheap cider, expensive perfume sweet on the tongue, sharp in the air, full bloom If the season is turning, let it turn us soft Cheap cider, expensive perfume, do not write us off [Bridge - Trade then Both] [Female] Keep the cup keep the mark [Male] Keep the jacket keep the spark [Both] If the fair shuts down and the lights go dim we still leave with more than we came in [Verse 5 - Trade] [Female] Tell me this is not a costume I put on for a week [Male] Tell me this is not a story I will only half speak [Female] Cheap cider, expensive perfume, say it back [Male] I say it back. I say we do not lack [Final Chorus - Both, loudest] Cheap cider, expensive perfume two worlds in one breath in the same little room of a night that should not work and somehow it does Your hand finds my sleeve like it already was Cheap cider, expensive perfume sweet on the tongue, sharp in the air, full bloom If the season is turning, let it turn us soft Cheap cider, expensive perfume, do not write us off [Outro - Both, fading] Paper cup lipstick ring orchard air we keep the thing
