Same Codes, Different Day

[Verse 1]
Clock hits six
Coffee cold
Sky gray
Slide my badge
Same beep
Different day
Steel on steel
That echo in my chest
Count ’em twice
Hope I didn’t miss one breath
Yard in the frost
Cigs traded for a favor
Eyes on my back
Every glance a little wager
Same jokes
Same fights
Same names on my sheet
Concrete choir
Of shuffling feet
[Chorus]
Same codes
Different day
Time don’t move
It frays
Keys hang heavy on my waist
I taste the rust
The rage
They bang
They curse my name
For something old
Still fresh in flames
Same codes
Different day
And I just pray we all walk away
[Verse 2]
Meds on the tier
Paper cups
Plastic hope
“Open up”
Watch ’em swallow
Watch ’em choke
One wrong word
Two weeks in the past
Now it’s back
Like it’s happening fast
Fists on the door
Like thunder in a tunnel
“Yo CO!”
All that anger through the funnel
Radio crackles
My heart stays flat
Can’t show fear
They smell that
[Chorus]
Same codes
Different day
Time don’t move
It frays
Keys hang heavy on my waist
I taste the rust
The rage
They bang
They curse my name
For something old
Still fresh in flames
Same codes
Different day
And I just pray we all walk away
[Bridge]
Do they know I go home
And hear that metal in my dreams (yeah)
Every slam
Every shout
Plays on loop behind the scenes
I’m just a man with a badge
Not a god
Not a judge
Still they hold me in their hands
Like I’m the one that never budged
[Chorus]
Same codes
Different day
Time don’t move
It frays
Keys hang heavy on my waist
I taste the rust
The rage
They bang
They curse my name
For something old
Still fresh in flames
Same codes
Different day
And I just pray we all walk away

Gritty storytelling over moody boom-bap: dusty drums, droning bass, and distant pad swells. Male vocals, close-mic’d and conversational on verses; hook opens with doubled vocals and a low octave layer. Subtle prison ambience tucked in the mix; last chorus swells with distorted harmonies and a slight tape wobble for tension., slow