The Lounge

THE LOUNGE [Intro – spoken] Come inside… Leave the city at the door. There’s always room in the Lounge. [Verse 1] Low light falling on the table, slow smoke dancing through the room, someone laughing by the window, someone singing out of tune. Old man sleeping by the speaker, young girl moving with the bass, everybody came from somewhere, nobody is leaving this place. [Chorus] Down in the Lounge, we let the whole thing roll. Down in the Lounge, where the rhythm takes control. No hurry, no trouble, no reason to explain— just another little night till the morning comes again. [Instrumental – Rhodes / Organ / Dub Echo] [Verse 2] Blue moon hanging over Kingston, taxi waiting in the rain, needle dropping on the record, and the bass comes back again. Somebody says, “One more, brother,” someone turns the lights down low. We don’t need to know the future— we got nowhere else to go. [Chorus] Down in the Lounge, we let the whole thing roll. Down in the Lounge, where the rhythm takes control. No hurry, no trouble, nothing left to prove— just the people and the night and that heavy little groove. [Dub Break – spoken fragments] Easy… (easy… easy…) Let it breathe… (breathe… breathe…) Don’t chase the rhythm. Let the rhythm chase you. [Instrumental] Deep bass / Hammond bubbles / Rhodes solo / guitar echo [Final Chorus] Down in the Lounge, when the city disappears. Down in the Lounge, we’ve been coming here for years. No hurry, no trouble, just another song to play… And when the sunlight finds us— we’ll still be grooving anyway. [Outro – dub fade] Down in the Lounge… (the Lounge… Lounge…) Take it easy… One more time.