[Intro]
(Quiet vinyl crackle, tape hiss)
Low headlights — three lanes, black glass
808 heartbeat, night’s pulse — come back
[Vocal Tag - chopped, layered]
"Midnight phonk, we ride" (x2) [chop]
[Verse 1]
’95 Caprice, tail-lights smoked, lacquered chrome
Dashboard glow—cig ash, a voicemail from Rome
I-55 at dawn, fog crawls low like a lie
Rearview ghosts, chrome teeth grin, they wink and slide
Radio samplings — church bell, a distant scream
Slow-mo headlights cut the frame, split the seam
Tape-stop for a breath, then the drum hits again
Memphis ghosts looped in the trunk like a sin
[Pre-Chorus 1]
Vinyl scratch memories, clipped and tight
808 pushes chest, keeps the shadows right
Siren of a memory — name on a diner sign
(Lilah on the corner, neon bleeding wine)
[Sample Drop — chopped female vocal: "Lilah"]
[Chorus - Hook]
Midnight phonk — we ride. [vocal chop tag]
Midnight phonk — we ride. [sample repeat]
Cruise the dark — don’t hide. (Short, punch)
Midnight phonk — we ride. [stutter + tape echo]
[Verse 2]
Black leather, crescent moon on the hood like a grin
Station lot—trash cans clatter, a siren spins
Corner of 7th and Pulaski, neon reads "HOTEL LUX"
Two-dollar dreams in the glove, cigarette flux
Chopped chorus in the background — pitched and slow
A taped confession, a four-bar echo of "let go"
Chrome smears the skyline, prayers in the ashtray
We trade this city’s teeth for one last highway
[Pre-Chorus 2 - story moves]
Rearview keeps a face I swear I used to know
A name in static — 'Marcus' in the radio
His laugh like broken glass, his last call on loop
Now I’m driving past the exit where we used to lose
[Vocal chop cue — fold his laugh into the snare]
[Chorus - Hook]
Midnight phonk — we ride. [vocal chop tag]
Midnight phonk — we ride. [cut + repeat]
Cruise the dark — don’t hide. (punch)
Midnight phonk — we ride. [tape-sample echo]
[Bridge]
(Beat drops to half-time — tape hiss swells)
Sample drop — church choir, pitch down to crawl
Tape stop — rewind: late-night phone, fragments fall
Gritty synth underlay, reverb on the name
Siren fades, heartbeat stays — nothing’s the same
[Production cue: vocal chop loop, reverse reverb]
[Breakdown]
808 thump — chest, chest, chest
Hat snaps — precise, like glass on steps
Short vocal tags — "ride" / "ride" (stuttered)
Two-measure fade — then plug the silence wide
[Chorus - Final]
Midnight phonk — we ride. [chopped tag x4]
Midnight phonk — we ride. [sample stutter]
Midnight phonk — we ride. (one-line tag, hypnotic)
Midnight phonk — we ride. [tape echo, low-pass sweep]
[Outro]
(Looped vocal tag: "Midnight phonk, we ride") [chop + reverb]
Vinyl crackle returns — slow fade to white
Short sample tag linger: "Lilah" — pitched, distant
One last tape-stop, then the headlights vanish.
[Vocal Tag - repeat as outro signature: "Midnight phonk, we ride"]
