Loyalty in a Locked Room (версия 2)

Intro

Bolt slid twice, fluorescent buzzing overhead

Reko counting ceiling tiles, I'm counting what got said

Back room of Ebers Market, cardboard for a bed

Loyalty ain't loud in here, it's quiet like a thread

Verse 1

Nine years knowing Reko since the block had streetlights out

Traded lunch for cigarettes, never had a doubt

Tonight the register jammed, the plan went sideways fast

Cops came quick, we ducked back, door locked, thought it'd last

Folding chair, duct tape arms, one bulb above the shelf

Boxes stacked like witnesses, quiet by itself

He's got a scar on his wrist from a fence we jumped in June

I got the burn on my palm from a July afternoon

We built this trust brick by brick, ain't something bought in stores

Every secret that we kept became another floor

Now we're stuck here breathing slow, sirens outside the wall

Twelve minutes in, no words, just the weight before the fall

He looks at me, I look back, both of us know the price

If one of us talks first, the other pays it twice

So we sit here in the static, let the silence do the talk

Loyalty's the only thing still standing when you're locked

Chorus

Locked in this room, ain't nobody talking

Loyalty's the wall keeping the whole roof from falling

Four walls, one truth, we