[Cold Open] [Ferry]
Streetlamp hisses, flicks and brays
Rubber soul shuffles at the end of the maze
Ripped notes in a pocket, dawn never comes clean
Rust on the hinges of something unseen

[Verse 0] [Ferry]
Falling through puddles of sodium light
Paper cup fortune, crumpled with fright
Trainyards coughing, veins ticking slow
Broken-glass laughter in alleys below

[Pre-Chorus]
Gravel tongues biting, city calls twice
Curtains for company, roll loaded dice

[Chorus] [Bowie]
Electric Orpheus calling from the underground
Wires spark and shudder on your crown
Cracked voice singing as the cables burn
One side sighs, the other one yearns

[Intro Verse] [Ferry]
Black gloves trembling, flickers on the street
Pavement oil rainbow, clatter beneath my feet
Panic in my collar, static nicks my sleeve
Copper taste of morning, nothing left to leave

[Pre-Chorus]
Footsteps like warnings, brittle and slow
Drags from a cigarette, fog in the glow

[Chorus]

[Chorus]
Electric Orpheus calling from the underground
Wires spark and shudder on your crown
Cracked voice singing as the cables burn
One side sighs, the other one yearns

[Post-Chorus]
Ahh ahh — the city moans
Ahh ahh — stray unknowns

[Verse 2]
Cash in my pocket, barely enough for the train
Bent keys on this piano, scratching at the windowpane
Bleeding fingers strumming static through the haze
Stumbling through the alleys, just waiting for a change

[Pre-Chorus]
Glitter on the gutter, boots stained gray
Give me something broken, take the gloss away

[Chorus]
Electric Orpheus calling from the underground
Wires spark and shudder on your crown
Cracked voice singing as the cables burn
One side sighs, the other one yearns

[Post-Chorus]
Ahh ahh — the city moans
Ahh ahh — stray unknowns

[Bridge]
Flicker in the gutter, got a jolt in my veins
Breath full of static, talk tangled in chains
Ghosts behind storefronts with neon in their eyes
Ride the current sideways, chase another high

[Verse 3]
Loose change rattles with the truth in the case
Ink stains fading, tracing lines across my face
Flashing past storefronts with dreams set to stall
Out here with the broken, where the wild wires crawl

[Pre-Chorus]
No gold in the pocket, just stains and chrome
But lightning keeps humming — won’t let me go home

[Chorus]
Electric Orpheus calling from the underground
Wires spark and shudder on your crown
Cracked voice singing as the cables burn
One side sighs, the other one yearns

[Post-Chorus]
Ahh ahh — the city moans
Ahh ahh — stray unknowns

[Outro]
Train rumbles distant, pages torn and thin
Pavement sings a hymn for midnight skin
Tape reels spinning out, spool tangled in the rain
Orpheus electric, fading but remains

[Post-Chorus]
Ahh ahh — shadows spin
Ahh ahh — nowhere to begin

[Outro Refrain] (Bowie & Ferry together)
Echo down the lines, we flicker and bend
Sparks in the gutter, the current won’t

[Outro Verse]
Ferry’s voice trembling, boots scraped raw
Laughter in the sidestreets, splinters in the jaw
Glass stuck in shoelaces, tracing the grid
Shadows play tricks where regrets are hid

[Final Chorus] [Bowie soars]
Electric Orpheus still calls from below
Fingers twitch and stumble, sockets overflow
Wires tangled gently where the daylight runs
One hand opens, the other one shuns

[Last Post-Chorus]
Ahh ahh — flickers return
Ahh ahh — always we burn

[Outro Tag]
Night bends around us, engines humming slow
Electric Orpheus — nowhere left to go