Prompt / Lyrics
[Intro] Click of the lighter Lip on the reed Gold on the mouthpiece Clock on the speed (hah) [Verse 1] Corner café, back room hush Ashtray mountain, cards in a flush Old heads argue over one missed touch Young ones counting every gram too much Lines on the table Lines in the staff Tattoos fade But the scars still laugh Abuela praying in the flat upstairs We trade jokes in between her prayers [Chorus] Smoke in the sax trap Coffee on the stove top Rhythm in the drip drop Heart on the back block (hey) Blessings in a brown bag Curses in a glass cup World on my thin neck Still I keep my chin up Smoke in the sax trap Foot on the cracked tile Past in a shoebox Future on redial [Verse 2] Trumpet case full of rent and hope Practice scales just to learn to cope Pass that chair, pass that rope We hang on bars like a bridge we wrote Neighbors dance to the floorboard thump Floor shakes soft with the old man's bump He spins her slow, she still got jump We live on crumbs but we eat that funk (ooh) [Chorus] Smoke in the sax trap Coffee on the stove top Rhythm in the drip drop Heart on the back block Blessings in a brown bag Curses in a glass cup World on my thin neck Still I keep my chin up (yeah) Smoke in the sax trap Foot on the cracked tile Past in a shoebox Future on redial [Bridge] Snap to the clave, swing to the side Saint on my chain, sin in my stride (hey) If I fall off, let the horn testify Every wrong note still says I tried [Chorus] Smoke in the sax trap Coffee on the stove top Rhythm in the drip drop Heart on the back block Blessings in a brown bag Curses in a glass cup World on my thin neck Still I keep my chin up Smoke in the sax trap Foot on the cracked tile Past in a shoebox Future on redial
Tags
jazz, Moody Latin drill groove over brushed jazz kit and upright bass, male vocals. Pianistic chords stab on offbeats while a smoky tenor sax weaves countermelodies. Verse sits in a tight, percussive pocket with rolling triplet flows; chorus widens with stacked call-and-response hooks and horn swells. Occasional double-time hi-hat flurries lift the energy, then drop back into laid-back swing on the turnarounds., drill, latin
Duration
2:56
Instrumental
No
Created
1/24/2026