Track · May 2, 2026 · English

Before Ten OClock

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4:27

Language

English

Lyrics

[Verse 1]

At the transit station doors

he's already on the fifth

paper bag in his fist

like it never had a name

By the lobby mat I stop

watch his shoulders fold in

before the clocks say ten

the day gets bent again

[Pre-Chorus]

I hear the turnstile cough

I see the guard look down

one more swallow burns

through the cracked-up ground

[Chorus]

Not in the lobby, no

not in the lobby

Not in the lobby, no

not in the lobby

Before ten o'clock

before ten o'clock

I need a different end

[Verse 2]

He's got a coat with holes

and shoes split at the seam

a life that got too cold

for the room it should have seen

I don't want the floor to shake

with another fallen song

but I know that empty look

it can drag us both along

[Pre-Chorus]

The metal bench goes cold

the morning hangs too low

I want to say his name

I don't even know

[Chorus]

Not in the lobby, no

not in the lobby

Not in the lobby, no

not in the lobby

Before ten o'clock

before ten o'clock

I need a different end

[Bridge]

[Harmonica break]

If I sound hard, I’m tired

if I turn away, I’m scared

he's still somebody's son

still somebody's prayer

[Final Chorus]

Not in the lobby, no

not in the lobby

Not in the lobby, no

not in the lobby

Before ten o'clock

before ten o'clock

I need a different end

Not in the lobby, no

not in the lobby

Style

dark trudging blues with a dragged-backdown beatsparse brushed kit and moaning slide guitar; verse rides a lowsteady pocket while pre-chorus tightens with handclaps and a walking bass; chorus opens with stacked male vocals and a rough gang-unison hook. add harmonica sighs between linesa tape-saturn break before the last chorusand gritty close-mic male vocals in a dustyintimate mix.bluesenglish

Prompt

The homeless man ant the transit station continues to poison himself before 10am drinking from a fifth of vodka like its water I can’t allow this in the lobby, dark trudge, blues, male

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Prompt by

GrizzlyJones

GeneratedMay 2, 2026

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