Intro
Grate hums low (low)
Watch the shoes hit the pavement
Two, three, step (step)
Yeah, keep it moving
Verse
Steam off the grating, three in the zone
Steel-toe rattle, tap on the stone (stone)
Curb is a metronome, rhythm in the shoe
Orange halogen, cutting it through
Left hip swinging like a heavy pendulum
Tongue on the rim of the paper cup hum (hum)
Crosswalk stripes turn to zebra keys
Wind whipping velvet round my calve and knees
Speaker in the trunk parked dead on the lane
Heavy sub humming through the sewer drain (drain)
Collar soaked down, hair tied tight
We don't take a minute, we consume the night
Shaking out the tendon, locking in the hinge
Yellow cab streak on the sidewalk fringe (fringe)
Ground gives back every ounce I press
Body got the answer, let the beat confess
Chorus
Bop till the block lights flicker (flicker)
Watch the pulse run quicker (quicker)
Rubber on the curb, drum in my spine
Every single muscle on the power line
Bop till the block lights flicker (flicker)
Watch the pulse run quicker (quicker)
Rubber on the curb, drum in my spine
Every single muscle on the power line
Verse
Grate hums hot, heat on the shin
Bass got a grip like a secondhand skin (skin)
Double-dutch bounce without a single cord
Shifting on the cement, never getting bored
Elbows sharp, carving out room
Hydrant on the corner shaking with the boom (boom)
Five-panel cap angled low to the brow
Nothing in the past, everything is now
Scent of fried dough from the twenty-four stand
Quarter-inch ripple in the palm of my hand (hand)
Step-pivot-snap, watch the heel dig deep
Whole avenue awake while the ceilings sleep
Stomp makes a spark on a copper penny top
Wire in the ankle, never gonna stop (stop)
Neon buzzed red, now it's buzzing pale blue
Rhythm got a hold and it's running me through
Chorus
Bop till the block lights flicker (flicker)
Watch the pulse run quicker (quicker)
Rubber on the curb, drum in my spine
Every single muscle on the power line
Bop till the block lights flicker (flicker)
Watch the pulse run quicker (quicker)
Rubber on the curb, drum in my spine
Every single muscle on the power line
Bridge
Drop the low end, let the clap take the wheel
Nothing in the world that my body can't heal (heal)
Sole meets gravel, gravel meets spark
Carving out a ribbon through the belly of the dark
Sirens in the distance singing high key
Echo off the bricks like a snare to me (me)
Chest like an amp, ribcage rattling
Shadow on the brick wall shadow-battling
Tension in the calf, spring in the toe
Every single stop sign tells me to go (go)
Static in the sweater, static in the grit
Never gonna leave till the block lights quit
Outro
Flicker, flicker, watch the bulb turn grey
Dance every shadow till the break of day (day)
Rubber on the curb, drum in my spine
Every single muscle on the power line
Bop till the block lights flicker (flicker)
Bop till the block lights flicker (flicker)
Hit the curb, hold the beat, freeze