[Verse 1]
Some slick thing at the bar says "he's just better at the pitch —
all these guys are selling something, his suit just fits."
And I laughed. Out loud. Because I am the last person you want
saying that to. I've read every play in that book.
I wrote half the margins.
[Pre]
I can smell a script across a crowded room. Watch.
[Chorus]
I ran the game. I RAN it — flattery, the read, the close
I could work you in one drink and you'd thank me as you rose
So believe me when I tell you what he is, and what he's not:
there's no pitch. There's no angle. There's no play. I looked. There's not.
I would KNOW
I would KNOW
The one man in the room who isn't selling —
I would know
[Verse 2]
First day I walked his floor I opened with my best
The line that never missed. He heard it, and he passed.
"Does that usually work?" — and handed it right back
No hook could set in him. Nothing to exploit.
You cannot con a man who wants nothing from the room.
I spent a career on the leverage in people's need —
he doesn't have the need. That's the whole locked door.
[Bridge]
You think clean is a costume. I get it — so did I.
I assumed the polish hid the con, because mine always did.
Took me months to accept the terrifying thing:
some people are just what they look like.
He deprecates. He never lies. He'd tell you your work is weak
and mean it kinder than your friends who lie.
That's not a technique. I have ALL the techniques.
It isn't one of them.
[Chorus]
I ran the game. I RAN it — and I was the best they had
So when I say he's the real thing, put the doubt away:
there's no pitch. There's no angle. There's no tell. I checked. There's not.
The sharpest read in any room just told you what she's got —
I would KNOW
I would KNOW
The only honest man I ever met —
and God, I would know
[Outro]
Finish your drink, operator.
You couldn't read him.
I could — it's all I do.
There's nothing there to read but the truth.
I would know.