[Intro | shouted] RED LIGHT READY! yeah ready baby CRACKED KEYS KEEP KICKING! [Verse 1 | clipped] Eleven forty-seven. Power cuts out. Mini-keyboard, plastic chair. Blue cord curled by the corner shop. Dust on my teeth. Sweat down my back. Two sticks hit wood— clack, clack, clack. [Pre | rising] Speaker split. Nobody quit. One red blink— then the whole row hit back. [Chorus | call and response] SPEAKER SPLIT! STREET STILL LIT! BATTERY BLINKS! BLOCK STILL KICKS! LOW POWER! LOUD CROWD! STICKS STRIKE STOOL TILL THE RED LIGHT DIES! [Post | clipped chant] CLACK-BACK! CRACK-BACK! CHEAP KEYS! DEEP HEAT! [Verse 2 | tighter] Paper cups jump. Cake leans left. My left palm burns under one new blister. A bus rolls past. Its windows shake. Four cracked notes keep the whole row awake. [Break | drums out] NO GRID. NO PLUG. RED LIGHT— READY? [Final Chorus | full return] RED LIGHT READY! SPEAKER SPLIT! STREET STILL LIT! BATTERY BLINKS! BLOCK STILL KICKS! LOW POWER! LOUD CROWD! STICKS STRIKE STOOL TILL THE RED LIGHT— [Outro | unresolved] ...ready.
