Bounty on the Boulevard (Version 2)

Verse

Glass and steel at the streetlight's bend

Blood and circuitry to spend

I don't answer the phone it rings

Money talks louder than kings

Every window has a name that glows

This is where the city eats what it owes

Bounty on the boulevard tonight

Catching shadows, keeping the light

Pre-Chorus

Who pays who when the sirens fade?

Do I still serve or break the shade?

Chorus

I'm a contract written in chrome and steel

A hundred eyes on the ceiling's deal

Streetlight counts how many hearts can buy

I'm the shadow moving before they decide

Bounty on the boulevard tonight

Every pulse is my own fight

Verse 2

Palm tree shaking with a borrowed hum

Someone's watch dog counting up till it's done

Laser tag echoes off the wall

Telling stories I'll never recall

I've got five minutes left before they track

The block remembers every heartbeat that's black

A girl on the corner selling her name

Coins for eyes that know my number and frame

Pre-Chorus

Who pays who when the sirens fade?

Do I still serve or break the shade?

Chorus

I'm a contract written in chrome and steel

A hundred eyes on the ceiling's deal

Streetlight counts how many hearts can buy

I'm the shadow moving before they decide

Bounty on the boulevard tonight

Every pulse is my own fight

Bridge

Some nights I forget who hired me first

The city wears the coat, it never blurts

A thousand dollars for a heartbeat's name

Sell it twice to keep from being the flame

I don't answer the phone it rings

Money talks louder than kings

Chorus

I'm a contract written in chrome and steel

A hundred eyes on the ceiling's deal

Streetlight counts how many hearts can buy

I'm the shadow moving before they decide

Bounty on the boulevard tonight

Every pulse is my own fight