November's Hundo

Background: Imagine Bowie and a New Romantics hybrid time-traveling to France in the early 1800's. The song title Saboteur is an ode to the myth of workers throwing their shoes (sabot) into the gears to break the machine/automation, hence the word Sabotage. Saboteurs can be revolutionaries who carry out their action in style. 

[Verse 1]
Neon clock, assembly hearts
Punch-in dreams, chrome-blue starts
Monochrome streets, I break the blur
Rouged up lips, black demure
Epaulets, sharp velvet cure
I’m the pause button—call me saboteur

[Pre-Chorus]
Tick—tock—glitch in the regimented sky
Catwalk over crosstown lines
I dress like a question, answer’s “why?”
To feel the city skip a time

[Chorus]
I’m your Saboteur (haute couture)
Throw my shoe in the gears—hear the future slur
Stop the machine so a heartbeat’s heard
Runway on the factory floor, I’ll make it purr
Provocative boots, marching through the whirr—
Click, clack—sabotage—bonjour, Saboteur

[Verse 2]
Powdered nerve, lacquered calm
Safety pins as lucky charms
Pleats like razors, seams like vows
I kiss the siren, kill it now
Thigh-high manifestos, lace that bites
I stall the engine just to light the nights

[Pre-Chorus]
Metronomes drown in velvet smoke
My je ne sais quoi—strikes, then spoke
A wooden whisper in the cogs they built
(“Sabot,” darling—shoe) let the belt tilt

[Chorus]
I’m your Saboteur (haute couture)
Throw my shoe in the gears—hear the future slur
Stop the machine so a heartbeat’s heard
Runway on the factory floor, I’ll make it purr
Provocative boots, marching through the whirr—
Click, clack—sabotage—bonjour, Saboteur

[Middle-Eight / Bridge]
Freeze the line, strike a pose
Stop the world—I want to pose
Gloves of silk, intent of steel
Turn off the grind so we can feel
If progress never asks what for—
I’ll be the lock on every door
Break the tempo, keep the tune
Waltz the gears beneath the moon

[Post-Chorus]
Kick—click—clack, let the city breathe
Flash—frame—black, watch the power leave
Hold that hush like a perfect blur
Say my name—Saboteur

[Verse 3]
Brocade storm in a mirrored hall
Spindle tongues begin to stall
Bias cuts and borrowed time
I stitch a riot down the line
When fashion’s weapon meets the nerve
The grand machine learns how to swerve

[Final Chorus]
I’m your Saboteur (haute couture)
Throw my shoe in the gears—hear the future slur
Stop the machine so a heartbeat’s heard
Runway on the factory floor, I’ll make it purr
Provocative boots, marching through the whirr—
Click, clack—sabotage—bonjour, Saboteur

[Outro]
Hush the hammers, hush the roar
Boots on steel—then nothing more
Neon blinks, the night’s couture—
World on pause, your Saboteur.

Saboteur (Haute Couture)

Christian Saiki
Ingrained in my psyche
Oh how exciting
When you said you liked me
Back in the third grade
When we were in the 6th grade
But I still have these dreams
Of wanting to know you

Pissed at Mikey
Oh you’re gonna bite me
Wanna go sightsee
It’s all so exciting
Britain’s bike scene
Not so frightening
Light so brightening
Bring on the fighting
Brigsby likely
Don’t got a flight key
Bottle of lightning
Shouldn’t be writing

Christian Saiki
Ingrained in my psyche
Oh how exciting
When you said you liked me
Back in the third grade
When we were in the 6th grade
But I still have these dreams
Of wanting to know you

Pissed at Mikey
Oh you’re gonna bite me
Wanna go sightsee
It’s all so exciting
Britain’s bike scene
Not so frightening
Light so brightening
Bring on the fighting
Brigsby likely
Don’t got a flight key
Bottle of lightning
Shouldn’t be writing

Christian Saiki
Ingrained in my psyche
Oh how exciting
When you said you liked me
Back in the third grade
When we were in the 6th grade
But I still have these dreams
Of wanting to know you

Christian Psyche

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