Street Cipher

{sub-bass roll-in} {low-pass filter sweep} Yeah

Let the clock run down

We starting now

I trace the layout on a cracked concrete floor Behind the static

is a wide-open door They wanted quick cash but we wanted much

more So we stayed up writing while they slept by the store

(uh-huh) {drum pattern tightens} This is the blueprint,

we lay it block by block From the basement up to the

ticking clock No shortcut route,

we just work and lock (yeah) {heavy brass stabs}

Paper-thin walls but the vision is thick Building an empire with concrete

and brick No magic trick,

just the hours we spend Writing the future on a broken pencil

lead

{jazz

trumpet sample

in

background} {drums drop out} {vinyl scratch scratch} { Rhodes chord sustain} We

did it from nothing

Just paper and ink

No time to blink

This is the blueprint,

we lay it block by block From the basement up to the

ticking clock

No shortcut route, we just work and lock (yeah)

{heavy brass stabs}

{drums slowly fade} Yeah

Block by block

We laid it out (hmmmm)

{record static

to fade-out}