The Heat Has Teeth — A Song Inspired by Dangerous U.S. heat wave impacting large swathes this week

[Verse 1]
Morning comes in wearing oven gloves
Tin roof ticking like a clock with a grudge
Mailbox melts in a mirage grin
Everybody moves like the street moved in

[Pre-Chorus]
Somebody tapes foil over tired glass
Somebody jokes, make this summer pass

[Chorus]
The heat has teeth, chewing through the screen
Everybody's praying for a little green
Ice in a towel, fan on the floor
We laugh like matches by the open door
The heat has teeth, but we got bite too
Passing cold water down the avenue

[Verse 2]
Bodega cooler humming like a hymn
Old man guards the last two popsicles in
Kids draw oceans on the sidewalk chalk
Sirens sweat when the power talks

[Pre-Chorus]
We don't need a sermon from the blazing sky
Just a porch light, a wet rag, a neighbor nearby

[Chorus]
The heat has teeth, chewing through the screen
Everybody's praying for a little green
Ice in a towel, fan on the floor
We laugh like matches by the open door
The heat has teeth, but we got bite too
Passing cold water down the avenue

[Bridge]
Grandma says noon used to knock, now it kicks in the door
We make a bucket brigade out of names
Every cup passed forward says stay

[Lead Guitar Solo]

[Final Chorus]
The heat has teeth, chewing through the screen
Everybody's praying for a little green
Ice in a towel, fan on the floor
We laugh like matches by the open door
The heat has teeth, but we got bite too
Passing cold water down the avenue
Passing cold water down the avenue