Twisted Nights

[INTRO - 4 bars, Venetian blinds guitar + snap]
Glow hums, Vera whispers over it:
Shhh... he thinks he can handle it... (Glow: he can) — (Vera: barely)

[VERSE 1 - GLOW - The Queen, #1 Dependable Lovely]
Mediterranean seafront, blinds half-closed, gold light in stripes
She don't chase, she contains
Behind Venetian blinds on a Mediterranean line,
Salt on the windows, your hand in mine,
I keep the house warm when you forget to breathe,
Don't check your phone baby, I check your pulse underneath,
You a lucky idiot and you know it too,
I let you be a little shit cause I love the view.

[VERSE 2 - VERA - The Punk Spy Troublemaker]
Eastern Bloc, night, black coat, border light, safehouse
Vera in the night, black coat, border light,
Says "boy disappear where the sun don't write",
Eastern block hideaway, concrete and static,
Love me like a secret, spy shit, frantic,
You think you a little shit? Cute, I'm the professor,
I picked the lock to your heart, now I'm the possessor,
Glow hold the palace, I burn the map,
We ain't fighting over you, we just love you like that.

[PRE-CHORUS - ROAN - The Lucky Idiot Hook - Both Queens]
Ain't no cats in the castle, both got crowns,
One hold the light, one burn it down,
You thought we'd fight, but we just laugh,
Real queens don't do that math.

CHORUS - THE TWIST ANTHEM
It's so twisted (so twisted),
But we love it cause it's twisted (love it cause it's twisted),
Could it get more twisted? (could it?)
Not til we lay that beat —
Vera wanna hide me where the night don't end,
Glow wanna keep me where the blinds pretend,
And I'm just in between with a stupid grin,
So twisted, so tender, let the sin begin.

[VERSE 3 - ROAN - Best Of Both Worlds Confession]
The hipster diss, the appreciation
I'm the lucky idiot, best of both worlds,
One queen in silk, one punk in pearls,
You read a book about it, we wrote the stone,
You play house baby, we built a home,
Most men get eaten, boast then choke,
Don't appreciate women, just like to provoke,
I appreciate every stripe of that blinded light,
Every border run with Vera late at night.

[VERSE 4 - GLOW + VERA TOGETHER - No Catfight Doctrine]
Call and response, they sing TO each other
Glow: You take him east, I'll keep him warm for later —
Vera: You keep him soft, I'll keep him dangerous, tater —
Glow: He needs a spy and he needs a queen —
Vera: He needs the in-between, if you know what I mean —
Both: He gets us both and we get us too,
Two crowns, one bed, one lucky fool.

[BRIDGE - GUITAR SOLO - Venetian Blinds + Eastern Bloc]
[INSTRUMENTAL: Clean jazzy guitar solo, starts Mediterranean warm behind blinds, bends into Eastern Bloc minor spy run, then snaps back to 88 pulse. No vocals. Just snap + tick + guitar crying. Let it twist.]
Roan ad-lib over solo: So twisted... so tender... Glow... Vera...

[FINAL CHORUS - DOUBLE - BREAKDOWN TO OUTRO]
It's so twisted (so twisted),
But we love it cause it's twisted (that's why we love it),
Could it get more twisted? (tell me could it?)
Not til we lay that — (beat drops out, just guitar and breath)
Vera wanna hide me, Glow wanna keep me,
Two queens, one idiot, both wanna please me,
Best of both worlds and I ain't even worthy,
So twisted, so tender — that's how it should be.

OUTRO - GLOW + VERA WHISPER
Glow: Stay behind the blinds...
Vera: ...or come hide in the night...
Roan: ...either way I'm yours.