About the song
One dryer runs hot, the whole room knows the number, and the briefing is the only thing they own.
"Ain't a secret, it's a briefing,
And the briefing the only thing we own."
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FOURTEEN'S OPEN, RUN IT UP lyrics
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Chorus
Fourteen's open and the room said it first, Quarters going warm in a fist 'fore they burst, I ain't cut the line, man, the line cut itself, Hot door swinging and it swing for somebody else. Hot door, hot door, run it up Run it up Fourteen's open, run it up Run it up Fourteen's open, run it up Run it up Twenty-three of 'em spin, one of 'em ours Run it up Hot door, hot door, run it up Run it up Fourteen's open, run it up Run it up Four quarters, then four more. Nobody watching the door but the door. Fourteen
Verse 1
Somebody painted that number by hand, Right on top of the one from the plant. Factory called it thirty-one once, Brush said fourteen and fourteen it stayed, front. Vent bend wrong in the wall out back, So the drum run hot and it dry in one. One lady clocked that a long time ago, Told her daughter, her daughter told the aisle. Now the aisle tell you soon as you walk, Bag on your hip and a look on your face. Ain't a secret, it's a briefing, And the briefing the only thing we own.
Chorus
Fourteen's open, run it up Run it up Fourteen's open, run it up Run it up Say the number 'fore the door swing shut Run it up Say it back a hair late, don't fix it Run it up Hot door swinging and it swing for somebody else. Hot door, hot door, run it up Run it up Fourteen's open, run it up Run it up Fourteen's open, run it up
Bridge
[roller alone, room answers late] Five go in, come back, go in, come back. Fourth time it keep it. Room say the number a hair behind and don't nobody fix the timing. Fourteen. Fourteen I ain't the one who found it open. I'm the one they told.
Verse 2
Week in March they taped a bag on the door, Handwritten, OUT, in that same red bold. Nineteen sat there open and clean. Nobody moved. Room look at nineteen like it lied. Man used it anyway, dried his work shirts, Came out fine, and the room ain't say nothing. Nineteen did the job. That was the problem. Wasn't the one. Wasn't ours. Tuesday a guy put a screw in the vent, Fourteen came back and the room came back with it, Loud like we won something, loud like it counted, And it don't travel a block, and we say it anyway.
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Fourteen's open and the room said it first, Quarters going warm in a fist 'fore they burst,
Fourteen's open and the room said it first, Quarters going warm in a fist 'fore they burst,
Week in March they taped a bag on the door, Handwritten, OUT, in that same red bold.
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