Verse 1
Red clay cooling by the taxi line
Your wrist turning with a brass watch shine
Strings start plucking from a gourd carved round
Lifting my heels off the dusty ground
Motorbike resting on a kickstand low
One little grin and you let me know
Pre-Chorus
Hear that calabash catch that beat
Hot wind whistling down a crowded street
Tell me you feel where this wants to go
Chorus
Catch me spinning in the kora and chrome
Tied to your shoulder, never heading back home
Wire on the wood and the flash of the street
Losing my heart to this heavy, steady beat
Catch me spinning in the kora and chrome
Verse 2
Mint steam rising from a clear glass cup
Laughing so hard that we don't look up
Spokes catch the neon in a streak of white
You pull me closer to the edge of night
Ring finger tapping on the curve of your hip
Still taste the sugar on the edge of your lip
Pre-Chorus
Hear that calabash catch that beat
Hot wind whistling down a crowded street
Tell me you feel where this wants to go
Chorus
Catch me spinning in the kora and chrome
Tied to your shoulder, never heading back home
Wire on the wood and the flash of the street
Losing my heart to this heavy, steady beat
Catch me spinning in the kora and chrome
Bridge
We could leave the boulevard, let the engines sleep
Keep every promise that we didn't have to keep
Just twenty-one strings and your breath on my neck
Taking a turn that I didn't expect
Chorus
Catch me spinning in the kora and chrome
Tied to your shoulder, never heading back home
Wire on the wood and the flash of the street
Losing my heart to this heavy, steady beat
Catch me spinning in the kora and chrome
