Bop till the block lights flicker flicker (Version 3)

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