Decode You
Ballad for a Dead Lover
(deep bass, finger snaps) Tick. Tock. (somebody knows my name) Tick. Tock. (somebody plays this game) Tick. Tock. (somebody knows my name)
Midnight and the message lights the dark again "Thinking of you" from a stranger, no name to send I don't know your voice but I know your time You always hit me up at nine, at nine, at nine
So I watch you, watch you, watch you, watch you Try to catch you, catch you, catch you, catch you Could be him, could be him, standing in the line Could be you, could be you — give yourself away this time
Spy. Spy. (could be you) Spy. Spy. (could be you) I decode you, decode you, decode you, decode you Spy. Spy. (could be you) Spy. Spy. (could be you) Midnight texter, who are you, who are you, who are you?
The quiet one in accounting types too fast Looks away too quick when I'm walking past Is it him, is it him, with the nervous hands? Or the loud one laughing too loud to understand
So I watch you, watch you, watch you, watch you Try to catch you, catch you, catch you, catch you Could be him, could be him, standing in the line Could be you, could be you — give yourself away this time
Spy. Spy. (could be you) Spy. Spy. (could be you) I decode you, decode you, decode you, decode you Spy. Spy. (could be you) Spy. Spy. (could be you) Midnight texter, who are you, who are you, who are you?
Tap-tap-tap (send) Tap-tap-tap (send) Tap-tap-tap (read it twice and pretend) Tap-tap-tap (send) Tap-tap-tap (send) Who's the one, who's the one, who's the one, my friend?
Cappuccino boy keeps stealing a look Then he smiles at his screen like he wrote me the book On the avenue everybody's a maybe Every buzzing pocket's gonna drive me crazy
Slow it down, slow it down The way he turns the phone around The guilty hand, the guilty eye He gives himself away — bye-bye Slow it down, slow it down Slow it down, slow it down
Spy. Spy. (could be you) Spy. Spy. (could be you) I decode you, decode you, decode you, decode you Spy. Spy. (could be you) Spy. Spy. (could be you) Midnight texter, who are you, who are you, who are you?
Tick. Tock. (I'm gonna find you out) Tick. Tock. (no doubt, no doubt, no doubt) Tick. Tock. (I'm gonna find you out)