Smoking Gun Serenade

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[Intro]
Footsteps in the hallway
Click, click
Clock on the wall says
“Time’s up, kid”

[Verse 1]
I walk in, room frozen in dust
Blood bloom framed in the camera’s rust
White chalk smile on the cold, gray floor
Every clue in the corner keeps asking for more
Black coat, notebook, coffee gone cold
Questions burn hotter than the stories I’m told
Lipstick stain on a shattered glass
Truth in the trash, buried under the past

[Chorus]
I’m the shadow in your spotlight
Reading secrets in the smoke
Every alibi you recite
Cracks open when I poke
Beautiful, brutal, the pull of the crime
Every broken piece falls into line
You can run from the badge, from the name, from the blame
But you can’t hide from the smoking gun serenade

[Verse 2]
I see lies in the tremor of a hand
Little twitch when they say, “I don’t understand”
Dog barks once at the neighbor’s door
Why’s your watch set wrong, what you hiding it for?
Street cam flickers, license plate smear
Zoom, enhance, now the getaway’s clear
You prayed for chaos, thought you’d vanish in flames
But patterns sing louder than your fake new names

[Chorus]

[Bridge]
[low vocal register]
Red thread on the board like veins in a heart
Every pin, every face, every motive and mark
[whispered vocals]
Follow the fear
Follow the greed
Follow the bruise
Till the answers bleed

[guitar solo]

[Verse 3]
Kick in the door, your mask half on
You laugh like the night’s already won
But that ring on your finger matches prints on the steel
One soft detail seals the deal
Sirens harmonize with your heavy breath
Metal cuffs click like a vow to regret
You wrote this story in somebody’s blood
I just read it back line by line in the mud

[Chorus]