[Intro]
[beat drops, crowd murmur]
(yeah)
Two capes
One mic
Two worlds
One night
[Verse 1]
I’m swingin in from Queens, red suit, raw nerves
Web-line, skyline, I don’t need curved words
Friendly in the day, but the night’s my grind
Every alley got a lesson, every loss rewinds
Uncle in my head sayin “kid, be brave”
So I joke through the pain while I still misbehave
You punch planets, boy, I patch broke homes
I’ve bled in cheap sneakers on broken stones
You crash from the clouds, cape lookin all regal
I crawl through the gutters fightin real dark evil
Your girl in a fortress, safe from the blast
Mine hangin off a bridge, I gotta move fast
You see a global threat, I see a single tear
You hear a distant scream, I hear it in my ear
You’re the symbol in the sky that they all salute
I’m the rumor in the stairwell in a busted suit
[Chorus]
When worlds collide, we both still ride
You hit like a storm, I cling to the side
We save what we love, even when it hurts
You burn through the clouds, I swing through the dirt
Different shields, same fight every night
You glow like a sun, I move outta sight
But the ones that we love, they’re the reason we bleed
Two ways to protect
Same heartbeat, same need
[Verse 2]
You talk steel skin, breath cold like winter
I’ve taped my ribs just to keep my center
Mary in the crowd, ink on her wrist
Name in her notebook, hope in her fist
You fly to the war, I run to the phone
Late rent, late night, still I’m never alone
When her scream cuts the noise, I don’t check the odds
I just jump, no plan, leave the rest to the gods
Now lemme flip it to the farmboy flex
Cape in the wind, S on the chest
Lois in the middle of a crumbling lane
I hold up the world just to spell her name
You swing on a web, I stand in a quake
You heal with a hug, I steady the shake
You patch up the block, I’m holdin the crust
We both built from trauma and a little blind trust
[Bridge]
[beat filters, guitars muted, synths pulse]
Crowds chant names, but they don’t know fear
How it tastes like iron in a lover’s tear
Power versus pressure, mask versus crest
We both lose sleep just hopin they rest
[Chorus]
When worlds collide, we both still ride
You hit like a storm, I cling to the side
We save what we love, even when it hurts
You burn through the clouds, I swing through the dirt
Different shields, same fight every night
You glow like a sun, I move outta sight
But the ones that we love, they’re the reason we bleed
Two ways to protect
Same heartbeat, same need
[Outro]
[guitars ring out, drums stomp]
From the farm to the fire escape
From the cape to the torn-up tape
We clash, we crash, then we stand in line
’Cause the world needs both
A spider and a spine