Intro
(Beat: warm log-drum bounce, soft piano stabs, shaker tick)
Neon mirrors, painted smiles on a crowded face —
We come to the floor, we call it clown Base.
Verse 1
Under streetlamps that hum like old radio lines,
She tucks yesterday in the pocket of her dress — a folded bruise that still shines.
Feet learn forgiveness to the rhythm of the street, piano stabs cut clean and bright.
Shakers whisper secrets, the city exhales into the night.
Pre-Chorus
(Backing call-response)
Call: Who hides? / Response: We dance.
Call: Who mends? / Response: With hands that chance.
Piano stabs paint the truth in little light, the log-drum teaches our bodies to forgive the fight.
Chorus (Hook) — tight, dance-floor chant
clown Base — feel the pulse, ride the tide
Amapiano in my bones, can't hide
clown Base — painted smiles, confetti rain
Log-drum bounce, we dance our pain
(repeat) clown Base — clown Base — (Backing: ah!)
Verse 2
She laughs with a bruise turned glitter, a new kind of shine,
Turns broken prayers into steps — syncopated and divine.
Neon confetti falls like memories that stutter and glow,
Piano stabs answer, high and low, while the bass learns to let go.
Pre-Chorus (Variation)
Call: Who carries? / Response: The beat.
Call: Who forgives? / Response: Our feet.
Shakers cut the air like small truths, the log-drum hums the road to repair.
Chorus (Hook)
clown Base — feel the pulse, ride the tide
Amapiano in my bones, can't hide
clown Base — painted smiles, confetti rain
Log-drum bounce, we dance our pain
(repeat) clown Base — clown Base — (Backing: hey!)
Bridge (Female lead vocal callouts & ad-libs)
(Female) Oh — watch the mirrors bend (mm-mm)
(Female) Ooh — spin the light again (na-na)
Call-and-response: (Lead) "Do we break?" — (Backing) "We mend."
Piano stabs like flares, then settle soft; short ad-libs ride the rhythm: (Female ad-lib: "la—la—ah")
Instrumental Drop / Log-drum Solo
(Beat: full log-drum bounce, piano stabs sync with shaker loops; backing vocals echo short hooks)
(Backing: "clown Base — feel — feel — feel")
Chorus (Final — extra punch, tighter repetition)
clown Base — feel the pulse, ride the tide
Amapiano in my bones, can't hide
clown Base — painted smiles, confetti rain
Log-drum bounce, we dance our pain
clown Base — feel the pulse, feel the tide (Backing: clown Base)
clown Base — (Female ad-lib: "ah—yah—ah") clown Base — (Backing: ah!)
Outro
(Beat slows to piano stabs and a distant shaker; female ad-libs linger like breath)
In clown Base we fold our stories into light —
Painted smiles, falling confetti, steps that learn to write.
(Female ad-lib final) "na-na, na-na, clown Base..." (fade)
