[Intro] [reese bass swells under] [voice: female ragga MC, toasting] Listen up, listen up, from di bank to di bus depot — something gone wrong and it nuh know where it go. [Verse 1] [amen break kicks in] Pager a ring inna di bank at lunchtime, card machine dem stop from di market to di coastline, dashboard green like a snooker cloth, but di queue can't pay and di tills dem off. Clean-lookin' function with a hole in di floor, password inna plain text lef' by di door, it look polished, look proper, look like it pass — but a polish pon a crack still a crack inna di glass. [Hook] [dub echo throws on the MC] Hire di kid! Hire di kid! Let her break di build, let her ask what it did, somebody taught you when you never knew nothing — pass it down, don't let di ladder go missing. [Verse 2] [reese bass rolls harder] Senior girl open di history, scroll it back, every change sign by a bot, row after row pon di stack. Who wrote this? Blame say: di agent. Who taught di agent? Dennis, grey beard, very patient. Di one who knew it gone retire to him allotment, him a grow potato, him nuh answer di phone, man. Who coulda learn it? Nuh junior inna di building — dem close di junior desk back when di hype was building. [Hook] Hire di kid! Hire di kid! Let her break di build, let her ask what it did, somebody taught you when you never knew nothing — pass it down, don't let di ladder go missing. [Break] [amen break drops out] [upright piano, beginner scale, one wrong note] [voice: female ragga MC, spoken, warm] Hear that? Somebody learning. Leave di wrong note in. [Hook] [amen rebuilds around the piano] Hire di kid! Hire di kid! Let her break di build, let her ask what it did, somebody taught you when you never knew nothing — pass it down, don't let di ladder go missing. [Outro] [piano scale again, cleaner this time] [reverb decay]
