[00:27.99]The streetlamps buzz a curfew lullaby
[00:33.06]Orange sodium hymn for the not-allowed-outside
[00:36.93]I count the bricks in the wall across the way
[00:48.24]They've been there forever they've got nothing to say
[00:58.56]The window is a screen the screen is a window
[01:03.21]Both show me a world I'm not allowed into
[01:13.80]A car passes slow headlights sweep my ceiling
[01:18.54]A searchlight for a feeling I've been stealing
[01:29.01]And the hour says stay
[01:32.88]And the walls obey
[01:36.60]And the door is just a painting of a door today
[01:44.94]Curfew
[01:47.52]The night is a sentence the moon is a guard
[01:54.30]Curfew
[01:55.20]The silence wears a badge the stillness carries a card
[02:00.24]Curfew
[02:01.74]I'm legal in my bedroom illegal everywhere else
[02:07.86]Curfew
[02:09.53]The only crime is breathing past the hour they dealt
[02:29.88]The key is in the lock but only from inside
[02:34.89]I'm not locked out —I'm locked in that's the twist they hide
[02:45.09]The fridge hums a note I've started to transcribe
[02:49.65]A symphony of appliances keeping me alive
[02:59.37]I pace the hallway like a zoo animal with a degree
[03:04.98]Calculating the square footage of being free
[03:12.48]The wifi's down so I can't even escape through a screen
[03:20.37]It's just me and the dust and the in-between
[03:30.84]And the hour says no
[03:34.71]And the shadows grow
[03:38.46]And the door becomes a mural of a world I used to know
[03:46.68]Curfew
[03:49.41]The night is a warden the stars are informants
[03:55.83]Curfew
[03:58.08]I alphabetize my regrets they're under"D"for dormant
[04:02.25]Curfew
[04:03.21]The only freedom is the distance from the bed to the sink
[04:09.84]Curfew
[04:10.83]The only crime is having an unscheduled think
[04:16.50]I heard a rumor that outside still exists
[04:20.45]That the wind still touches faces that the rain still insists
[04:26.28]On falling on skin instead of on glass
[04:31.50]I heard a rumor that this too shall pass
[04:36.87]But the rumor came from me to me
[04:40.50]And I'm an unreliable source you see
[04:44.25]The only truth is this room and its dimensions
[04:49.56]The only law is the clock's detentions
[04:53.34]Curfew
[05:32.04]The night is a law I never voted for
[05:37.38]Curfew
[05:39.60]The silence is a tax I pay with every pore
[05:44.55]Curfew
[05:45.30]I'm legal in my silence illegal in my wanting
[05:52.26]Curfew
[05:54.18]The only crime the only crime the only crime
[05:59.76]is breathing past the hour
[06:07.56]breathing past the hour
[06:15.36]breathing
[06:19.98]The hour passes
[06:23.52]Then the next hour
[06:27.24]Then the next
[06:30.03]They all look the same in here