Pulse in the Parking Lot

There's a pulse in the parking lot

Two a.m., the bouncer calls it
House lights up, the DJ's gone
Forty of us out on the tarmac
Nobody's ready to go home
Kemi pops the trunk of her Honda
Subwoofer rattling the plates
Somebody's up on a shopping cart
We're dancing in the painted spaces

Keys in the air (keys in the air)
Hazard lights keeping time
Nobody here wants tomorrow
Not tonight

There's a pulse in the parking lot
Turn it up, turn it up from the trunk
Lights went off but the night did not
There's a pulse in the parking lot

Bass up (in the lot)
Bass up (don't stop)
Bass up (in the lot)
There's a pulse in the parking lot

Car alarms come in on the snare
Streetlight buzzing like a strobe
A stranger passes round her water
Shoes in her hand and she's still aglow
The security guard walks over
Flashlight up like he's here to stop it
Then he taps it on his palm
Right on the beat, and he can't stop it

Keys in the air (keys in the air)
Hazard lights keeping time
Nobody here wants tomorrow
Not tonight

There's a pulse in the parking lot
Turn it up, turn it up from the trunk
Lights went off but the night did not
There's a pulse in the parking lot

Blue lights turning at the corner
Everybody sings it one more time
Then forty doors close all at once
And the lot goes quiet

There was a pulse in the parking lot
Turn it up, turn it up from the trunk
Lights went off but the night did not
There's a pulse in the parking lot

Boom-boom (in the lot)
Don't stop