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okay lowercase lyrics
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Intro
Two a.m. on University, phone face up she texting me back, I read it like a book
Verse 1
"ok cool" no capital, no period on the end small letters mean she easy, that is how I know we good again Plantation porch light buzzing, cafecito going cold I screenshot how she typed it like it is scripture I been told she don't dot her sentences when her shoulders coming down I can hear her smiling lowercase from clear across the town "lol" with the one L, "ard" without the Y that is the softest that she get, and I memorize the sky
Pre-chorus
so I'm watching every letter like it is weather on a map one capital, my whole chest go tight
Chorus
when she lowercase, I know she okay no period, we golden, let it stay, let it stay small letters, soft weather, she ain't leaving today lowercase, lowercase, that is how I know she okay
Verse 2
then "Okay." with the big O and the dot, my stomach drop capital cold as the AC in the Publix off the block that period sit there heavy like a verdict on a page I count the minutes blue, watch her typing, watch it fade three dots come and they leave, three dots come back again on I-95 going nowhere just to think "we should talk" would kill me, but she only said "k." one letter with no period still got me reading it all day
Verse 3
Man, I know how this sound grown, reading punctuation like it's tea leaves in a cup in Sawgrass traffic doing forensics on a "sup" nah, that's a lie, I ain't grown about you, not a little I split a comma open like it's splitting me down the middle my boys say she just busy, and they probably right but a comma out of place gon' steal my whole night I float up off the beat now, ain't no drum gon' hold this me overthinking how you type is its own kind of poetry, witness
Pre-chorus
so I'm watching every letter like it is weather on a map one capital, my whole chest go tight
Chorus
when she lowercase, I know she okay no period, we golden, let it stay, let it stay small letters, soft weather, she ain't leaving today lowercase, lowercase, that is how I know she okay
Verse 4
phone buzz on the nightstand, I flip it like a coin "goodnight" all small, no punctuation, and my shoulders unjoin the 954 quiet, just the fridge and my relief she left the period off so I left the worry underneath I been burned by perfect grammar, capital and clean somebody typed me flawless right before they left the scene so a sloppy little "night" mean more to me than roses the typos are the trust, the lowercase is what she chose
Bridge
A period at the end of okay can end a whole weekend learned that the hard way, watched a clean text close a season So when yours come in crooked, lowercase, unfinished that ain't her being careless, that's her letting me get in it
Verse 5
now I text her back the same, all small, all soft, no stop meet me lowercase, baby, let the capitals all drop Hollywood Beach at sunrise, sand still cold on Pines I want to earn the little letters, want to deserve the easy time "come thru" no question mark, just a door she leaving open and I finally read it right, it ain't a code, it's her hoping lowercase ain't just comfortable, lowercase is her trust so I keep every letter small the way she keeping us
Pre-chorus
so I'm watching every letter like it is weather on a map one capital, my whole chest go light
Chorus
when she lowercase, I know she okay no period, we golden, let it stay, let it stay small letters, soft weather, she ain't leaving today lowercase, lowercase, that is how I know she okay Okay... okay...
Outro
"goodnight" no period Yeah, we okay
Inside the recording
Two a.m. on University, phone face up she texting me back, I read it like a book
so I'm watching every letter like it is weather on a map one capital, my whole chest go tight
"goodnight" no period Yeah, we okay
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