🎙️ [INTRO – 0:00–0:18]
[do not sing | FX: Vinyl crackle + heartbeat pulse + faint bike wheel spin]
[do not sing | (CRAIG): spoken, center-left, light reverb]
[CRAIG] Childhood cracked like a vinyl loop...
[do not sing | (JASON): overlapping, cheeky tone, center-right]
[JASON] Blood brothers running wild and loose.
[do not sing | (SECOND VOICE): whispered echo, rear-left]
[SECOND VOICE] Wild and loose...
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🎙️ [VERSE 1 – 0:18–0:42]
[do not sing | FX: Tape hiss + static flicker FX]
[CRAIG] School shoes ruined in the Monday rain
[CRAIG] Detentions earned in the hall of shame
[CRAIG] We made a pact with a rusty blade
[CRAIG] Palm to palm as the sky turned grey
[do not sing | (SECOND VOICE): shadow echo, 2 lines behind]
[SECOND VOICE] Sky turned grey...
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🎙️ [VERSE 2 – 0:42–1:05]
[do not sing | (JASON): rap delivery, bouncier flow]
[JASON] Took Nana’s fags from the biscuit tin
[JASON] Only if there were ten—we weren’t that grim
[JASON] Alley smoked full of teenage sins
[JASON] We laughed like gods in the council bins
[do not sing | (CRAIG): overlaps final line, softly spoken]
[CRAIG] No throne like stone steps and a world of spin
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🎙️ [CHORUS – 1:05–1:30]
[do not sing | (CRAIG): leads melody, baritone, legato phrasing]
[CRAIG] Blood never lied—yeah, that bond was true
[CRAIG] You were my shadow when the world turned blue
[CRAIG] Cut me open and you'd see it too
[CRAIG] One heart in two jackets, black and bruised
[do not sing | (SECOND VOICE): soft hum layer under full chorus]
[do not sing | (JASON): echoes “cut me open...” with delay tail]
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🎙️ [VERSE 3 – 1:30–1:52]
[do not sing | (CRAIG): firm but nostalgic tone]
[CRAIG] You were the fire when my world felt damp
[CRAIG] Laughed through pain in the cold street lamps
[CRAIG] Another blood brother, the one unseen
[CRAIG] A ghost in the frame of our old routine
[do not sing | (SECOND VOICE): soft spoken echo of “old routine”]
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🎙️ [VERSE 4 – 1:52–2:12]
[do not sing | (JASON): sharper phrasing, emotional shift]
[JASON] We drew maps in the cracks of streets
[JASON] Our names tagged bold where the buses sleep
[JASON] Years flew fast, but the ink stayed true
[JASON] I’d still bleed twice if it meant I’d find you
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🎙️ [CHORUS REPRISE – 2:12–2:40]
[do not sing | (JASON): leads melody, tenor; (CRAIG): underlayer in harmony]
[JASON] Blood never lied—still tattooed deep
[JASON] Through fights, through nights we never did speak
[JASON] Every silence had a scream beneath
[JASON] Two souls stitched in the street’s heartbeat
[do not sing | (SECOND VOICE): low hum + faint falsetto on “stitched” and “heartbeat”]
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🎙️ [OUTRO – 2:40–3:00]
[do not sing | (CRAIG): spoken, soft reverbed fade]
[CRAIG] If time rewound, I’d cut again
[CRAIG] Pressed palms, no need to pretend
[CRAIG] Blood remembers what memory bends
[CRAIG] And some bonds—don’t ever end.
[do not sing | (SECOND VOICE): final whispered line, reverse shimmer FX]
[SECOND VOICE] Don’t ever end...
