Midnight Lecture in the Alley

Lyrics

Verse 1
Cold rain on the cobblestone
Hood up
But my face still shown
Read books ‘bout crime in the back row seat
Now I quote those lines while I’m on these streets

Red ink on the lecture notes
Case file names in the margins I wrote
Every rule they say I should never cross
Turned every single warning to a coin I toss

Chorus
Midnight lecture in the alley
Studying fear like a final exam
Shadow on the wall keeps taking attendance
Every heartbeat spelling out “damned”

Midnight lecture in the alley
Cap and gown made of smoke and steel
If the reaper got a question for the class tonight
I’m the only one raising the steel

Verse 2
Old tape playing in a haunted flat
Kids laugh backwards
Can you answer that?
Arabic script on the cracked white tile
Prayers on the wall
But they twist and smile

Clock strikes twelve
That’s the office hour
Knife-edge logic
Thesis on power
Footsteps echo on the spiral stair
You revise your sins when you feel that stare

Chorus
Midnight lecture in the alley
Studying fear like a final exam
Shadow on the wall keeps taking attendance
Every heartbeat spelling out “damned”

Midnight lecture in the alley
Cap and gown made of smoke and steel
If the reaper got a question for the class tonight
I’m the only one raising the steel

Bridge
Streetlamp flicker like a slideshow reel
Faces of the past that I tried to conceal
Whose story ends on this page we write?
Whose name gets crossed in the dark tonight? (yeah)

Chorus
Midnight lecture in the alley
Studying fear like a final exam
Shadow on the wall keeps taking attendance
Every heartbeat spelling out “damned”

Midnight lecture in the alley
Cap and gown made of smoke and steel
If the reaper got a question for the class tonight
I’m the only one raising the steel