Shhh
Hear that

Click clack code in the floorboards
Hush hiss ink in the air
I see it in the tide and the tall doors
Soft like a prayer
Sharp like a snare
Click clack code in the floorboards
Hush hiss close your eyes
If you don’t read the fine print it reads you back
Right under the lights

I cracked a cold rune bone true in the scholar’s tongue
Hidden in hymns that the high halls hum
From mine dust mornings to Thames side sun
A script in the silt where the truth plays dumb

Boardroom knights with the cufflink gleam
Tap tap talk in a banker’s den
They pour progress neat like a quiet dream
Then draw new borders with an old ink pen

Reed smoke deep throat slow float
Click clack code in the floor won’t let go
Reed smoke sleep walk no jokes
Hush hiss truth in my teeth won’t let go

Tick tock pens in the margin lines
Thump thump truth under velvet speech
Maps get folded like pocket crimes
Stamped so clean but it still can reach

Not a ghost story just doors that swing
Click of access clack of approved
A policy poem that don’t say a thing
But moves your tomorrow by what gets moved

Click clack code in the floorboards
Hush hiss ink in the air
I see it in the tide and the tall doors
Soft like a prayer
Sharp like a snare
Click clack code in the floorboards
Hush hiss close your eyes
If you don’t read the fine print it reads you back
Right under the lights

Lusaka heat like a held back shout
Manchester rain on a tin roof drum
St Louis neon with a redline pout
Different streets same pull where you from

I read that pattern in a handshake pause
In just sign here with a sugar grin
Every promise got hidden clauses
Every help got a shadow in

Reed smoke deep throat slow float
Click clack code in the floor won’t let go
Reed smoke sleep walk no jokes
Hush hiss truth in my teeth won’t let go

Shhh listen
Ports go chug chug in the midnight air
Towers blink bzzzt like they breathing prayer
If the loop go whirr and you still feel free
Check the mirror who teaching your feet

Click clack code in the floorboards
Hush hiss ink in the air
I see it in the tide and the tall doors
Soft like a prayer
Sharp like a snare
Click clack code in the floorboards
Hush hiss close your eyes
But I wrote a new line in the reed smoke now
Watch me rewrite the signs

Click clack bang bang boom boom

No crown no throne
Just signal and system
Reed smoke
Let go