[Intro] [empty market at night, canvas tarps flapping, ledger pages turning slowly, wordless choir high and thin] [no drums] [Vendor Chant] [Tal sings the chant himself now, soft and close, no old man, drums follow every syllable] Watermelon, watermelon coconut lemon banana, banana Ellery lemon [Verse 1] [quiet close croon] Took it while he slept book beneath the cart opened to the page that he knew by heart [short silence] Every line he wrote shorter than the last footsteps down a hallway never reach the glass [Chorus] [slow sidechain breathing, choir high and thin, stacked hook harmonies] The ledger (every run) paid it down and down down and down and down every time it's less never is it none written so it shrinks written never to be done I would cook forever and he'd still owe one [Verse 2] [distortion on the word one] Learned the old man's song learned it word for word every word's a fruit now all but one I've heard [short silence] Watermelon, lemon I can sing them all only one stays cold only one stays small [Bridge] [everything drops out except a single soft kick] Ellery [silence] [Tal, barely a breath] (still there) [silence] [Vendor Chant] [Tal sings the chant alone, drums follow every syllable] Watermelon, watermelon coconut lemon banana, banana Ellery lemon [Chorus] [full choir high and thin, sidechain breathing slow] The ledger (every run) paid it down and down down and down and down every time it's less never is it none written so it shrinks written never to be done I would cook forever and he'd still owe one [Outro] [pages turning, Tal's chant fading to one word] Ellery [hard cut, no fade]
