Hordes 888

[INTRO - 8 Bars - Shakers + Wind + Rapid Tovshuur RUN]
(whispered)
Mongol sand to glass land...
Snake in the silk...
888...

VERSE 1 - Rone - The Arrival
Stepped off the steppe in a downtown loft
Horses in the elevator, still dust soft
They said penthouse, we heard ger in the sky
888 horde, no vacancy, we don't ask why
Bags full of sky, pockets full of tengri blue
City never seen a camp like we do
Marble floor, we make a fire, that's custom
Old 12 pay rent, we own the whole somethin'

[PRE-CHORUS - Glow - Ooh Girl Sees The Horde]
Ooh, you brought the desert to my lobby
Hooves on the marble, oh you got me
Tovshuur talk fast and my heart beat slow
You said wave is wave, now I know, I know

[CHORUS - DOUBLE HOOK - Every Time English Then Mongolian]
888 like a Mongolian horde
Penthouse yurt with a city sword
Tovshuur talk, shakers in the sand
Snake in the silk in the modern land

Найман найман найм шиг Монголын давалгаа
Naiman naiman naim shig Mongoliin davalgaa
Пентхауст гэр, хотод сэлэм
Penthaust ger, hotod selem

VERSE 2 - Poetry of The Pack
Chono wolves in a Benz coupe, eyes gold
Morin horses know the road before the road
Urtiin duu in the throat of the night
Neon tengri, same sky, different light
We don't pitch tents, we pitch frequencies
Between the notes where Old 12 can't breathe
Your 12 Tet high, your 12 Tet low
We live in the bend where the real ones go

[PRE-CHORUS 2 - Glow - Bigger Harmony + Shakers]
Ooh, steppe boys in the penthouse suite
Sand in the sheets, desert in the beat
Rapid plucks like fingers on my spine
Snake crawl fast, then you make it whine

CHORUS - DOUBLE HOOK
888 like a Mongolian horde
Penthouse yurt with a city sword
Tovshuur talk, shakers in the sand
Snake in the silk in the modern land

Найман найман найм шиг Монголын давалгаа
Penthaust ger, hotod selem

[VERSE 3 - BRIDGE - Minimal, Only Rapid Tovshuur + Rap - The Flex]
(drop drums)
Yeah, Fender think 24 frets is microtonal
We microtonal in one fret, that's so local
One string, one bend, one whole nation
48 strings but we need one for the foundation
Pluck rapid, jazzy not jazzy, you know the feel
Snake don't slither slow, snake cut the field
Weep now... [Tovshuur WEEP BEND] ...then run again
That's wave, that's Edison, that's 888 way, my friend

VERSE 4 - The Camp
Now yurt in the kitchen, Khan in the fridge
City outside lookin' in like kids
They think we visiting, we think they camped on us
Whole block is steppe if you adjust the lens
Incense in the vent, shakers in the rent-free
Glow by the window, Vera hummin' in Mongolese
We didn't move to the city, we moved the city to sand
Snake made it home, now it own the land

[OUTRO - Vera - Mongolian Woman Long Song + Your Whisper]
(Vera - urtiin duu style, long weeping, microtonal, no English, over Tovshuur weep)
Aaay... tengeriin... gazariin... morin... chonoo... 888...

(You whispered under her, last double hook faded)
888 like a Mongolian horde...
Naiman naiman naim shig... davalgaa...