Intro
Cinder in the teeth, steam off the skin
Drop that pocket, lock that in
Smolder in the heel, spark in the gut
Keep the door cracked, don't stay shut
Verse 1
Steam off the collar, friction on the brick (brick)
Sub bass ticking like an eight-day wick (wick)
Curb full of rubber, heat in the sole
Spilling out the exit door straight into the coal (coal)
Steel drum smoking on the corner lot
Shoulder blade moving in a steady knot (knot)
Don't rush the tempo, keep it down low
Watch the collarbone shine in the amber glow (glow)
Wrist catch the kick drum, ankle catch the snare
Heavy diesel vapor hanging in the air (air)
Static on the sleeve, static on the tongue
Iron in the breath, iron in the lung (lung)
Match head scraping on the side of the box
Double time shifting through the alleyway blocks (blocks)
Drop don't flash, drop don't burst
Feed it to the marrow till it cures that thirst (thirst)
Chorus
Slowburn, let it slowburn (burn)
Pavement cooking when the ankles turn (turn)
Hold it in the chest, make the cinder churn (churn)
Slowburn, let it slowburn (burn)
Verse 2
Two-thirty-five and the metal stays hot (hot)
Low end crawling from the parking lot (lot)
Sweat run clean down the bridge of the nose
Tapping out the meter through the rip in the clothes (clothes)
Red taillight paint a strip on the shin
Bass rattle tight underneath my skin (skin)
No quick flash, no paper flame
Every single knuckle knows the tempo by name (name)
Chainlink rattling, fence got a hum
Thumping on the zinc like an empty oil drum (drum)
Hip stay centered while the gravel shifts wide
Keep the pilot lit somewhere deep inside (side)
Grease on the curb, heat in the thread
Following the tremor everywhere I tread (tread)
Don't blow the fuse, let the copper wire melt
Rhythm ain't a rumor when the kick is felt (felt)
Chorus
Slowburn, let it slowburn (burn)
Pavement cooking when the ankles turn (turn)
Hold it in the chest, make the cinder churn (churn)
Slowburn, let it slowburn (burn)
Bridge
No sudden blast that dies in the wind
Lock that frequency right where we been (been)
From the marrow to the tendon to the ball of the foot
Leave a ring on the concrete lined with soot (soot)
Up through the ribcage, out through the jaw
Living by the heavy eight-hundred-watt law (law)
Steady, steady, let the furnace take hold
Bake this asphalt into copper and gold (gold)
Outro
Keep the wire hot (hot)
Hold the red line (line)
Down to the ash
Right on the one