Hum Between The Hooks

[Intro]

(mm-mm)

Wool sleeve brushes a wooden hook

[Verse 1]

Narrow lamp in the cloakroom quiet

Coat hooks standing in a row

Ticket stub folded in my pocket

From the night they let me go in

Muted steps on cool linoleum

Someone laughs two doors away

I test a note against the silence

Just to hear if I can stay

[Pre-Chorus]

Breath stacks close against the coats

Pitch finds pitch without a plan

We warm a note between the hangers

Hands on hooks — a smaller land

[Chorus]

Hum between the hooks

Stay in the hum

Shoulders line up on the wood

Coats sway when we become

Hum between the hooks

Warm in the room

We find the door together —

Not alone inside the tune

[Verse 2]

I hang my coat beside a red one

Smell of rain still in the wool

Someone passes me a spare hair-tie

“You’re early — good. The room is full.”

We match a fifth, then break and giggle

Linoleum keeps our tempo true

The stub still sits inside my pocket

Proof I walked the hallway through

[Pre-Chorus 2]

Breath stacks close against the coats

Three parts lean without a shove

Ticket stub soft in my pocket

Hooks hold us — that’s enough

[Chorus 2]

Hum between the hooks

Stay in the hum

Shoulders line up on the wood

Coats sway when we become

Hum between the hooks

Warm in the room

We find the door together —

Not alone inside the tune

[Bridge]

Out there the seats will fill with faces

In here my coat finds its own hook

I match their pitch one breath longer

Then open the practice-room door we took

[Final Chorus]

Hum between the hooks

Stay in the hum

Shoulders line up — now the wood

Feels like home before we run

Hum between the hooks

Warm in the room

We find the door together —

And carry the hum into the tune

[Outro]

(mm-mm)

Between the hooks… we stay