[Intro — Production notes]
Vinyl crackle, warm Rhodes, sub-808 under chest
BPM 98 — low kick, crisp hats. Triplet hi-hats under the 2nd chorus
Beat-cut before the last chorus. Let the city breathe into the sound
[Verse 1]
Step in, taxi glare paints your jawline gold
Silk seam at your sleeve, cigarette ash on your knuckle cold
Leather whispers as you cross the room, slow and deliberate
Your shadow carves a map on me — every street a secret visit
Velvet voice, paper-thin promises folded into heat
Breath in close — the skyline listens to the syncopated beat
You move like danger wrapped in perfume and late-night laughs
I answer in skin, in small surrenders, in the pause between your steps
[Pre-Chorus 1 — tease]
Brush the seam of my neck, see how the quiet breaks
Small electric touches, tiny thefts that the darkness takes
Lean lower, speak softer, let the night be our disguise
Small promises, first kisses, slow-opened eyes
[Chorus]
Hot man, burn me out, leave me glowing
Heat on my skin, heart on the ceiling (ooh)
Hot man, burn me out, leave me glowing
Heat on my skin, heart on the ceiling
(Tag) Burn me out — leave me shining
(Ad-lib tag) Ooh, hot man, keep me high
[Verse 2 — escalate]
Moonlight sews our outlines into the couch’s frame
Your laugh pulls silk tight; I’m memorizing the way you say my name
Cigarette ash like punctuation at the corner of your smile
Taxi lights blink Morse code — come closer for a while
Your thumb traces a seam at the small of my spine
Ink-stain promises, soft and urgent, written in the dark of our rhyme
Bass knocks like thunder down an alleyway, beneath our skin
You say one small sin and I’m willing to fold right back in
[Pre-Chorus 2 — escalate physicality]
Close the gap, breathe slow — taste the little fight
Pull me under, pull me deeper, don’t stop till it's right
Hands like cartographers, finding borders on my clothes
Take the map, trace the ocean — let whatever happens, go
[Chorus]
Hot man, burn me out, leave me glowing
Heat on my skin, heart on the ceiling (ah)
Hot man, burn me out, leave me glowing
Heat on my skin, heart on the ceiling
(Tag) Burn me out — leave me shining
(Ad-lib) Keep the flame, don’t let it die
[Bridge — reveal]
Strip the room to two breaths and one confession
I’m small when morning comes; I fear you leave the session
Tell me you’ll stay in the corners of my quiet and my loud
That this heat won’t be another city mist, another crowd
(Beat drops to silence — one vocal run)
[Drill Switch — triplet flow / rhythmic flip]
(hi-hats in triplets, snare staccato)
Tick-tick, trip-trip, heart hits, hit-hit
Fast lane, slow hands, close clap, wrist-grip
Run-run, come-run, take-run, don’t slip
Night pulls, night folds — we move, tighten, flip
Short, punchy cadence — bite, break, bloom
Every little motion maps a room, room, room
[Pre-Chorus 3 — surrender]
Breathe in, sink down — rise with the roll
One count, two — I give you my whole
[Final Chorus — beat drop, biggest energy]
Hot man, burn me out, leave me glowing (