Studs assemble version 3

Neon on the floor

Crooked door

Whole room paused just to watch me think

Bar full of women at the rail

Perfume

Poker faces

Crooked nails

Spoke to one

Asked her name real soft

Glasses froze halfway

Air cut off

They all frowned like I broke some law

Cold eyes crawling up and down my jaw

Then a voice in the back

Heavy as a gavel

One word echo down the room—

(Studs assemble) that’s the call in the dark

Boots scrape tile. (Studs assemble)

Metal flash

Sharp

Every chair turn

Every stare locked in. (Studs assemble)

I had to swing just to breathe

Just to live

(Studs assemble) . whole place leaned

I bled knuckles just to keep my feet

When the smoke cleared

Sweat on my hands

I was the last man standing

Last man

First swing missed me by an inch

Second one kissed me

Split my lip

Tables flipped

Someone killed the lights

Fists like bricks in a tunnel fight. I was grabbing and attention lips and tits I was grabbing and attention big lips thin lips lips in both hands top lips bottom lips

Bodies crashing into bar-back glass

Could taste fear

Could smell old ash

Name on their mouths but I stayed quiet

Just breathing through the riot. I think Im going to be a daddy I think I smashed a few between all the touching and a fussing

Someone laughed. and then they said studs Assemble

Someone hit the ground

Sirens in my chest

World spinning ‘round

Then the dust fell slow like the end of a battle

One heartbeat

Then another

Then—

(Studs assemble) . that’s the call in the dark

Boots scrape tile. ( studs Assemble)

Metal flash

Sharp

Every chair turn

Every stare locked in

I had to swing just to breathe

Just to live

(Studs assemble) whole place leaned

I bled knuckles just to keep my feet

When the smoke cleared

Sweat on my hands

I was the last man standing

Last man

Nothing is what it seems anymore

One wrong word

You’re in a war

I came for a drink

Left with a scar

Walked out alone

Talking to the stars (yeah). I think I converted a few they were hanging all over my arms one with a kiss the other would have ginger bite Im not sure if we were making love or still in a fight I heard one scream I want to have his baby tonight and I heard studs assemble continue the fight [female] (Studs assemble)

(Studs assemble) still rings in my head

Ghosts in the mirror

Bruises in red

Every chair empty

Every face gone thin

But I remember every swing

Every win

(Studs assemble) like a curse

Like a brand

But I’m still here

Still breathing

Still a man

When the smoke cleared

Blood on my plans

I was the last man standing

Last man it was a hard lesson learned when she figured out she wasnt a man when all the smoke cleared she realized theres a difference when you get the real thing I had to throw some hands even laid some pipe I want to fight but I know Ill lose the child support battle you be a stud by day and a woman by night shell be a woman long enough to get that check