Midnight Shuffle Code

Verse

Heel drops first where the shaker ticks

Toe rolls in on the two-step click

Strobe cuts blue then it cuts to black

Pattern resets, we don't lose the track

Cup rim sweats on the windowsill

Kick drum knocking like it's got a bill

Snare skips left where the hi-hat splits

Feet read the code that the bassline writes

Pre-Chorus

Who wrote the steps that we never learned

Who locked the groove that we all return

Pattern repeats and the room agrees

Nobody's teaching, nobody leads

Chorus

Shuffle the code, lock in the frame

Same four steps, no one to blame

Shuffle the code, feet know the key

Door stays shut till the last one leaves

Verse

Strobe stutters twice where the bass line dips

Shoulder cocks back on the offbeat flip

Radiator hums through the breeze block wall

Somebody's trainer scuffs the whole floor smooth

Chain on the door swings loose and slow

Security's torch beam skips the row

We swap the step like we swap a note

Nobody speaks it, everybody knows

Pre-Chorus

Who set the pace that the sub line keeps

Who counts the bars while the shutter creaks

Pattern repeats and the room agrees

Nobody's teaching, nobody leads

Chorus

Shuffle the code, lock in the frame

Same four steps, no one to blame

Shuffle the code, feet know the key

Door stays shut till the last one leaves

Bridge

Cipher in the ankle, cipher in the knee

Passed it round the circle, nobody speaks

Floor keeps the record, floor keeps the time

Feet already know it before the mind

Chorus

Shuffle the code, lock in the frame

Same four steps, no one to blame

Shuffle the code, feet know the key

Door stays shut till the last one leaves