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[Intro ☕][Energy: Mid] (Rhodes piano alone — warm, slightly smirking) (bass enters underneath, walking easy) (guitar fill — single notes, jazz inflected) (the sound of a hallway between classes) [Verse 1 ☕][Energy: Mid] (smooth, present tense, completely inside the moment) Three minutes between the bell and the bell The whole world compressed Into forty feet of hall Lockers on the left And she's on the right And nothing else Exists At all Red hair And that particular smile That makes you forget What class comes next Or what class just ended Or honestly Anything You ever knew [Pre-Chorus][Energy: Build] (Rhodes lifts, bass walks higher) The hallway monitor Looks the other way He was seventeen once He remembers How this goes The late bell Is a theory Not a fact When she's standing That close [Chorus 🔥][Energy: High] (horns accent, full band locks in — sophisticated and warm) Hallway Between the bells Hallway Where time just stops and dwells Nobody taught us this Nobody had to Hallway Is all we need to know Hallway Her back against the wall Hallway Got no time for class at all The whole curriculum Can wait until tomorrow Right now It's just The hallway [Verse 2 ☕][Energy: Mid] (drops back — Rhodes and voice, intimate) She's got a laugh That reorganizes Everything you thought You understood About priorities About schedules About the periodic table Which suddenly Seems less important Than it did The warning bell Is just an opinion The tardy slip Is just a piece of paper And paper Means nothing When she's got that look [Pre-Chorus][Energy: Build] (bass walking, guitar fills rising) Somewhere a teacher Is taking attendance Somewhere a desk Has got our name on it But somewhere Is a long way From this hallway And right now Right now Is everything [Chorus 🔥][Energy: High] Hallway Between the bells Hallway Where time just stops and dwells Nobody taught us this Nobody had to Hallway Is all we need to know Hallway Her back against the wall Hallway Got no time for class at all The whole curriculum Can wait until tomorrow Right now It's just The hallway [Guitar Solo][Energy: High] (Steely Dan style — melodic, sophisticated, warm) (Rhodes underneath, walking bass) (not showy — knowing) (12 bars — the sound of three minutes that feel like forever) [Bridge ☕][Energy: Low] (Rhodes alone — one of those unexpected Steely Dan chord changes) (slightly melancholic underneath the warmth) The tardy bell Already rang (beat) Neither of us Moved (guitar enters, single warm notes) There's a thing that happens In a hallway Between the bells When you're seventeen And the whole world Is exactly This wide And this warm And this close And you know On some level You can't explain yet That you'll remember This hallway Long after you've forgotten Everything They tried to teach you On the other side Of that door [Final Chorus 🔥][Energy: High] (full band — horns accent, Rhodes driving, bass locked) Hallway Between the bells Hallway Where time just stops and dwells Nobody taught us this Nobody had to Hallway Is all we need to know Hallway Red hair Against the wall Hallway Got no time No time at all The whole curriculum Can wait until forever Right now Right now It's just The hallway [Outro ☕][Energy: Low][Fade Out] (Rhodes returns alone — same opening phrase) (bass walks out underneath) (guitar hums one last warm note) (the sound of the bell finally winning) Hallway ...the bell rang (beat) Neither of us Moved