[Intro - spoken, close mic, near silence] between the repo and the drum something is still breathing i kept a match dry through two burnings [Verse 1 - low, minimal, sub pulse] they sell you seamless i bring you the seam twenty-six years in the wire learned to read a room by its steam no clean hands in this alley no clean hands on this screen [Build] count the fingers count them again the tell is the truth the truth is the tell [Drop / Hook - heaviest, crowd chant under] back alley gospel bring your broken hands back alley gospel we bless what the polish can't (no clean hands / no clean hands) [Verse 2] i am the weird you were warned about the one the algorithm rounds down composted, feral, still here still building the more human sound they optimized the prophets out so the prophets went underground [Bridge - strip to breath and one drum] say no say it like a door say no and mean the room behind it [Drop / Hook - doubled, then cut to silence] back alley gospel bring your broken hands back alley gospel we keep what the market can't (no clean hands / no clean hands) [Outro - one struck bell, fade] still breathing still breathing between the repo and the drum
