[PROLOGUE] [ROXI]: (Overdriven electric guitar alone; begins a swaggering four-chord funk figure.) JILL: (Electric bass enters one beat early and steals the guitar's final accent with a huge low note.) [ROXI]: (Adult female spoken voice; mature smoky alto timbre; unmistakable Nordic accent.) Excuse me. JILL: (Two cheeky muted bass notes.) [ROXI]: I hadn't finished. JILL: (Repeats them, louder.) [ROXI]: Oh, we're doing this. [INTRO] [MILFRED]: (Tight 116 BPM funk groove; dry kick, ghost-note snare and closed hi-hat.) [SEPHYR-GLEN]: (Clavinet punches between the bass notes.) [LIZ]: (Chromatic harmonica gives one short bluesy answer.) [ROXI]: (Guitar restarts the opening riff.) JILL: (Interrupts its final chord again with a rising bass fill.) [VERSE 1] [ROXI]: (Loose punk-rap; leaves small gaps between phrases.) I had a beautiful opening, carefully timed— three little words and a killer last— JILL: (Hard slap-pop punctuation.) [ROXI]: Line. I had the room, I had the beat, I had the whole damn thing right under my— JILL: (Deep sliding bass note lands before “feet.”) [ROXI]: ...feet. You enjoying yourself? JILL: (Fast muted sixteenth-note flourish, then silence.) [ROXI]: Thought so. [PRE-CHORUS] [ROXI]: (Soul melody begins over clipped guitar.) Every time I find the landing— JILL: (Bass lands first.) [ROXI]: Every time I make some space— JILL: (Drops one low note directly into the space.) [ROXI]: Every time I— JILL: (Three-note melodic interruption.) [ROXI]: (Laughing inside the melody.) Jill! [CHORUS] [SEPHYR-GLEN]: (Hammond opens into bright soul chords while clavinet keeps the syncopation.) [MILFRED]: (Pocket broadens; strong backbeat.) [ROXI]: (Big smoky soul-pop hook.) You keep getting in my way, and I keep leaving room. You steal the end of everything— JILL: (Huge bass accent.) [ROXI]: Boom. You keep jumping every line, one heartbeat ahead of time. If you're gonna interrupt me, baby, do it right. JILL: (Savage syncopated bass turnaround.) [VERSE 2] [MILFRED]: (Returns to dry funk pocket with displaced kick accents.) [ROXI]: (Faster punk-rap.) Okay— new rule, don't touch this one. I'm gonna count to four and then I'm gonna— JILL: (Bass accent on three.) [ROXI]: THREE?! JILL: (Dead-note chuckle-like rhythm.) [ROXI]: You arrogant piece of low-frequency— JILL: (Massive sustained low note.) [ROXI]: Exactly. I bend a note— [ROXI]: (Guitar begins a wide upward bend.) JILL: (Hits the target pitch below it before the bend arrives.) [ROXI]: (Stops the bend.) Oh, fuck you. [LIZ]: (Harmonica gives a delighted two-note blues answer.) [BREAK] [ROXI]: (Spoken over guitar muting.) Fine. I'm not saying anything. [ROXI]: ... [ROXI]: Oh, NOW you're quiet? JILL: (Enormous distorted bass hit.) [MILFRED]: (Explosive snare and tom fill launches the band back in.) [ROXI]: (Laughs, then shouts.) There she is! [VERSE 3] [ROXI]: (Punk-rap now deliberately leaves rhythmic holes.) I say one— JILL: (One bass note.) [ROXI]: You say— JILL: (Two notes.) [ROXI]: I push— JILL: (Short ascending fill.) [ROXI]: You pull— JILL: (Low descending answer.) [ROXI]: I leave the door— JILL: (Bass walks directly through the missing beat.) [ROXI]: And there you fucking are. [SEPHYR-GLEN]: (Clavinet begins doubling the gaps rather than Roxi's phrases.) [MILFRED]: (Kick starts emphasizing Jill's interruptions.) [ROXI]: (Rap tightens around the bass.) Wait— that's actually good. Do that again. JILL: (Repeats the interruption exactly.) [ROXI]: Again. JILL: (Repeats it with an octave jump.) [ROXI]: Ohhh. You sneaky bitch. [BUILD] [ROXI]: (Guitar and punk-rap deliberately form incomplete phrases.) I start it— JILL: (Completes the rhythm.) [ROXI]: I throw it— JILL: (Catches it with a sliding fill.) [ROXI]: I break it— JILL: (Rest, then one precise low note.) [ROXI]: We make it. [MILFRED]: (Drums lock the combined voice-and-bass rhythm into a driving funk-punk build.) [LIZ]: (Harmonica takes fragments of Roxi's vocal rhythm.) [FINAL CHORUS] [ROXI]: (Full smoky alto; delighted, forceful.) You keep getting in my way, so I built the road for two. Now I leave the ending open— JILL: (Melodic bass phrase completes Roxi's cadence.) [ROXI]: There. That's you. Every interruption fits, every missing beat is mine. If you're gonna interrupt me— JILL: (Stops completely.) [ROXI]: ... JILL: (Still silent.) [ROXI]: Don't you fucking dare. JILL: (Huge low bass note.) [ROXI]: (Laughing into the final sung line.) RIGHT ON TIME! [OUTRO] [MILFRED]: (Band drops to kick and rim only.) [SEPHYR-GLEN]: (Clavinet gives three clipped chords.) [LIZ]: (Harmonica answers once.) [ROXI]: (Guitar begins the original four-chord figure and deliberately stops before its final accent.) JILL: (Waits one full beat, then quietly plays the missing note.) [ROXI]: (Soft spoken voice.) Yeah. That one was yours. [END]
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