Blood On The Offset Print

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[Intro]
Streetlights smear on the windshield glare
Coffee gone cold
Case file on the chair
Photos spread out like a tarot spread
Every angle points back to the dead

[Verse 1]
Boot prints
Brick dust
Rust-red stain
Every little detail screaming a name
I taste the truth in the copper air
I feel the pattern hiding in there [low growl]

Stare through smoke
Through alibis
Watch their pupils tremble
Stuttered replies
I follow fear like a bloodhound scent
Every broken story
Every bent intent

[Chorus]
Blood on the offset print
Ink in the shape of sin
I read the crime in the margins
Till the paper starts to burn
Faces in black and white
Confess in the fluorescent light
I will drag their shadows
Into the day they earned

[Verse 2]
Late shift
Ticking of the station clock
My heart keeps time with the hammer-cock
[whispered vocals] The guilty pray on a borrowed breath
But I walk side by side with death

Faint perfume on a shredded sleeve
Glass in the tread of a getaway thief
I see the map in the random mess
Every ragged thread pulls tight to their neck [guttural scream]

[Chorus]

[Bridge]
[guitars drop out
Fretless bass front and center]
Slide into silence
Notes bend like a witness’ spine
Soft light on the corridor
Where mercy crossed the line

Then—impact
[guitar solo]
Walls shake with the verdict drum
Their bravado breaks
As the sirens come

[Chorus]