Lyrics
Form 10-C on a steel-gray clipboard,
the pen is chained to the counter with a zip-tie cord.
Tuesday, just past noon, the clock on the wall
is watching a whole city learn how to stall.
[Chorus]
Did the air taste like this for you?
Your shoulders held the same bad news.
The carbon copy face in the glass,
watching a future become the past.
[Verse 2]
The woman ahead shifts the weight on her hip,
a quiet sigh escaping her lip.
Smell of old paper and ammonia on the worn tile floor,
she whispers to her son, "Won't be much more."
[Spoken-Word Interlude (Female Voice, flat, over a PA system)]
"Next. Window Four. Please have all required documentation ready for review. Incomplete forms will not be processed. Next."
[Chorus]
Did the air taste like this for you?
Your shoulders held the same bad news.
The carbon copy face in the glass,
watching a future become the past.
[Bridge]
A stubborn green shoot through a crack in the floor,
asking for what belonged to yours before.
The key for this building just grinds in the lock,
a rhythm that nobody taught to the clock.
[Outro]
The same bad news.
Just the same bad news.
About Stevie Wunder
Stevie Wunder was raised as the de facto parent to his six younger siblings in a small house on Detroit's East Side. He taught himself to play a beat-up clavinet in the hours after everyone else was asleep, turning the weight of familial responsibility into a sound steeped in Motown-funk and soulful resilience. His music is for anyone who's ever been the 'responsible one,' a joyful noise from the…
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