Cracked spine rests on sticky floor
Ink bleeds blue through midnight pores
Choir rings in the grain
Low alto hums a forgotten refrain
Notebook hums a jazz club tune
Basement hums beneath the moon
Leather sings in minor key
Chicago night sets us free
Cigarette ash on worn cover
Blue notes drift from another lover
Pages hold a half-sung creed
Breath of altos plant the seed
Notebook hums a jazz club tune
Basement hums beneath the moon
Leather sings in minor key
Chicago night sets us free
Wabash Avenue shakes above
Notebook pulses, leather love
Hymn fragments stitch the dark air
Two voices rise, a spoken prayer
Cold delays cut through the smoke
Angular riffs the silence broke
Spoken word turns chant aloud
Anthem rises from the ground
Ink dries slow on cracked vinyl
Choir kid sings a survival ritual
Leather warms with every line
Basement claims this hymn as mine
Notebook hums a jazz club tune
Basement hums beneath the moon
Leather sings in minor key
Chicago night sets us free
Morning light cracks concrete seams
Notebook hums in waking dreams
Leather holds the choir's trace
Chicago sings what matters most
Notebook hums a jazz club tune
Basement hums beneath the moon
Leather sings in minor key
Chicago night sets us free
Leather hums, the storm now clear
Basement hymn we still hear