SAMURAI

[Intro – fluorescent hum, distant turnstile beep, whisper] (notification sound…) already dressed for the funeral, mine [Hook] I'm a soft blade in a hard light quiet floor of the seventeenth night nobody dies in the city today nobody lives in the usual way [Verse 1 – spoken, close mic, processed] seven-eleven, the rice ball, the screen the man on the platform staring at clean I bow to the door, the door bows to me two minutes early, the way it should be suit pressed by someone, that someone was me phone in my pocket, my pocket's the sea I practiced this face in the bathroom at three nobody noticed, the way it should be [Hook] I'm a soft blade in a hard light quiet floor of the seventeenth night nobody dies in the city today nobody lives in the usual way [Verse 2 – more melodic, falsetto creeping in] elevator music, a song I don't know forty-second floor and the city below I send the email, I close the email I open the email, I close the email karaoke booth at eleven o'four a stranger remembering somebody's war the train is the river, the river is glass I bow to the morning, I let the night pass [Bridge – stripped, rhodes and breath] hagakure... (葉隠) the leaves are the ceiling, the ceiling is mine hagakure... (葉隠) the boss in the meeting, the bushi in line one badge, one card, one breath at the gate — I was already dying, I came in on time [Hook – fuller, falsetto layered] I'm a soft blade in a hard light quiet floor of the seventeenth night nobody dies in the city today nobody lives in the usual way [Outro – fade to traffic, notification sound, breath] (another notification…) soft blade... (葉隠) nobody noticed the way it should be