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Intro
We open with a line in Greek and head straight for the dance floor.
I’d heard a snippet of a Greek song that became the musical starting point for “Never Known a Love Like This.” I put on a suit in the first verse and try to keep her dancing until morning. My verse barely stops moving.
Mike takes his verse on a long walk around the lake. By the time we join up for the chorus, we’re singing “Now I found home in a kiss.”
Act I is still in its happy stretch here. For the length of this song, neither of us is asking the good thing to explain itself.
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Lyrics
Chunjay, Verse 1:
Απόψε φόρα τα καλά σου (Greek: “I’m wearing my best”)
You can wear that dress and I’ll don this new suit
“Shoot they look so cute” we gonna turn them heads around
We gonna boogie on the dance floor to that Royal Ruckus sound
Squats down to the ground cause we move it like Orange Theory
We connecting through our movements when our voices can’t carry
You can bury my body, sometime but not tonight
Cause I’m looking to boogie til the morning flicks up light
Kicks and flips and vodka club with lime
I’ll show some tips and tricks you’re my partner in crime
For those sweet eyes, I would die
I could do this every night for a whole lifetime
Flatline, Chorus 1:
One hand up and get in the zone
Two hands high, open eyes, set the tone
Microphone check checkah gonna shake a hip bone
Be a melody, a love like I never known
Flatline, Verse 2:
I’m getting all the signals right, but the brights are on
Kept the spirits light, ran the marathon
We walked the whole lake, took all afternoon
Thought we felt bridges shake, thought we sang a tune
Getting lost in that moment, stars shine a little brighter
When ya flick it like a lighter, tapping like a type writer
Your love is like a fighter gonna give it all its got
And words are getting longer gonna lose my train of thought
We grow like a garden, we pear (pair) like a tree
Love is the pardon, we’re buzzed like a bee
Like a bribe to the warden, like I’ve been set free
Now it’s just you and me…just you and me
Chunjay & Flatline, Chorus 2:
Never known a love like this
Never grown so close to bliss
Never thrown my self in’is
Now I found home in a kiss
Narrator:
Adult cicadas spend their time in trees looking for a mate. Males sing, females respond by flicking their wings, mating begins, and the cycle of life begins again.
Credits
Music: Flatline
Lyrics and Vocals: Chunjay and Flatline
Narrator: Heath McClure
Album-wide credits
Additional Credits
Production: Flatline, Chunjay
Mixing, Engineering, Co-Production, Mastering, Additional Scratches, Everything but the Kitchen Sink: DJ Sean P at TWLVS in Fort Worth, Texas
Vocal Production/Consultation: Krum
Pre-Mixing: Flatline, Chunjay, Krum, Shedlyn/Chris Felix, Annex, Grizzly Beatz, David Mathewes
Background Vocals: Flatline, DJ Sean P, Chunjay, and Friends
Executive Producer: Chunjay
Lyrics and music copyright 2017 Neopolis Media in partnership with Invisible Library Records. All rights reserved. M. Walker & J. Bennett Artist rights (BMI).
Guest/co-writer FYI: Act I shared credit: Music — Flatline; Lyrics and Vocals — Chunjay and Flatline; Narrator — Heath McClure. These source credits are attribution information, not a lyric-scope blocker; they do not specify legal ownership shares.
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