[Intro]

(Distorted guzheng plucking, slow trip-hop beat kicks in)

[Verse 1]

Static on the radio dial

You’re wearing that predatory smile

Thrift store fur and copper hair

Breath like smoke in the freezing air

You don't walk, you move like a ghost

The kind of guest who haunts the host

[Chorus]

Oh, she’s got nine ways to leave the room

Before the morning sweeps the gloom

Amber eyes in the rearview mirror

The closer I get, the less you’re clearer

Wild heart, teeth white as bone

You’re never yours, and never my own

[Verse 2]

Found a single orange hair on the sheet

While you’re blocks away on silent feet

Turning corners, shedding the skin

Where does the girl end and the myth begin?

You left the window cracked an inch

I felt the cold, but didn't flinch

[Hook]

Run, little vixen, run

Into the glare of the rising sun

Hide your tail in a velvet gown

The cleverest thing in this dying town

[Bridge]

(Tempo slows, bass gets heavy)

Is it a trick? Or a basic need?

To be the hunger, never the feed

You’re a forest fire in a paper house

The quiet hawk and the trembling mouse

[Chorus]

Oh, she’s got nine ways to leave the room

Before the morning sweeps the gloom

Amber eyes in the rearview mirror

The closer I get, the less you’re clearer

Wild heart, teeth white as bone

You’re never yours, and never my own

[Outro]

(Sound of wind through trees, fading beat)

Amber and ash...

Just amber and ash...

You were never here at all.

(Fade to silence)