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Dark roof
Laces loose
Hood low over my face
They pray someone like me shows up
Night wind
Concrete wet
Old Converse on a ledge, I flex my neck
City hum quiet, then it cuts with a scream
Sirens slice through the fog, blood in the beam
Drop to the fire escape, metal sings
Heartbeat sync with the code of the street things
Glass door, one kick, lobby full of smoke
Adrenaline heavy like a hand on my throat
Turn the corner
Two guns, two aims
One bag full of cash, one life in chains
He's shaking with the hostage, eyes locked on me
The other loading money like it's all duty free
Vigilante or villain
You just see what you're given
Up here I make the ending
Down there they write the legend
Call me hero in the building
But you don't know what I'm hidin'
You see capes in my shadow
I see hunger in my vision
Time slow
One breath
Pick a path, play judge, play death
I nod at the hostage, "Close your eyes"
Step to the gun, pull fate from the sky
Disarm one
Spin him to the floor
She runs for the door, knees weak on the tile
Cameras catch me with a half-lit smile
The other with the duffle? walks right by the aisle
But he's mine
He just don't know yet
Let him think he escaped, let him taste that sweat
Slip through the stairwell, out into the back
Footsteps echo like a drum on the track
He hits the alley
I drop from the rain
Rope round his wrists, face first in the drain
Whisper in his ear like a late-night sin
"You can lose the bag, but you're still goin' in"
Drag him to the blue lights, leave him on his knees
They cheer when they see me, chant my initial in the breeze
Cameras flash
They don't see my hands
Back in the dark with the cash in the van