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Separate Checks

Liquid Drum & Bass
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[Intro]
Booth six by the window, with the highway running late
Eleven years of Tuesdays on the same chipped plate

[Verse 1]
Year one it was one plate and two forks on the table
Coffee going cold while they talked the clock away
A quarter in the jukebox that they never picked a song for
And the credit's still up there, glowing green today
By year six it was two plates and a tower of sugar packets
Nobody slammed a door — they just asked for separate checks

[Build]

[Drop]

[Verse 2]
Year nine they stopped reaching over, kept their hands on their own side
Talking about the traffic, talking weather, talking work
Same window seat at midnight, same polite goodnight
Two plates, two checks, two sets of keys, two cars out in the dark
Nobody raised a voice in here, nobody ever did
Nobody slammed a door — they just asked for separate checks

[Build 2]

[Drop 2]

[Breakdown]
One coat on the hook tonight, and half the booth gone cold

[Bridge]
Tonight just one of them walks in and orders it for two
Hears it a beat too late and smiles and says to leave it be
The coffee comes without a word, the way it always has
And the second fork lies where another hand used to be

[Final Build]

[Final Drop]

[Outro]
The credit's on the jukebox and the song don't ever play
Nobody slammed a door

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