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Thieves Dressed in White (Remastered)
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Artist:NBT
Duration:4:57
Tags:root reggae,one drop rhythm,72 bpm,studio recording,analog warmth,dry room,Muscle Shoals soul meets Kingston roots,deep melodic baritone vocal,gospel trained phrasing,unhurried delivery,deliberate and measured,vocal sits low in the mix early then opens up at chorus,slap bass,deep rumbling,hard thumb attack,bass slide,bass drives the pocket,punchy rhythm guitar,clean telecaster tone,guitar solo starts clean measured then turns biting and deliberate mid solo no warning,hammond b3 low and steady,tenor sax and trumpet accent phrases only,horns stay out of the verse,wurlitzer underneath,hand percussion,sparse,natural room reverb,no compression gloss,no digital sheen,no choir,no backing vocals,no crowd noise,no applause,no live effects,no pop structure,sparse arrangement builds slowly verse to chorus,bridge drops to bass alone,outro guitar walks down clean bass follows
[Intro] City lights still on at four, and nobody's asking why Same hand that shook yours at church, counting what it took from you One man walked the whole length of it without a name in the paper Another drove through smiling, got the front page and a parade [Pre-Chorus] You hold your tongue so long it starts to feel like losing And the one who lied out loud just got a better deal You've been bruised in places nobody thinks to look And the story that got told wasn't yours, but it spread [Chorus] Why do liars move like lightning? While the truthful crawl through stone? Why does honesty keep drowning Like a flower overgrown? Good people carry it quiet Don't even know they're bleeding While the ones who cheated sleep just fine Woke up feeling right [Verse 1] A man does right, keeps his word, shows up every time Somebody's already working on a different version of him The room shifts when he's not in it, and he can't feel the draft By the time he notices the water, he's already had a glass [Verse 2] A promise made on a Friday doesn't make it to Monday And the man who said it looks you in the eye like nothing happened The real account's sitting there but nobody's reading it And the man who spun the story got the dinner and the toast [Bridge] Stone doesn't negotiate Pretty things rot One survives the centuries The other dies when beauty leaves [Hook] Still burning in there somewhere Let the storm rage on... It hasn't yet [Verse 3] Walk into any room, half the people wearing something other than their face And the warmest handshake in there's the one you shouldn't trust Decent people don't announce it, they just keep the light on Even when the cost of it comes out of their own pocket [Verse 4] There's a weight to knowing better, and it doesn't lift And the ones who sleep easy are the ones that bother me most But you get old, and you start to see it in the way they move Something in the body knows what the mouth denied [Chorus] Why do liars soar like eagles While the truthful drag their chains? Why does virtue wear the sorrow While deceit escapes the pains? Still — it's there in the morning Like the moon above the tide Dark just runs out of night Even after winning nights [Outro] It all settles eventually Always does What's real doesn't need to argue It just waits