The stories behind Sold Out Before We Open

• The Gang-Vocal Hook Behind 'Sold Out Before We Open' — Liner notes on the rap-metal production built to sound like a trade-show floor at full volume.
• Sold Out Before We Open: The Expo Hall Everyone Fights to Get Into — A hype rap-metal anthem for the minute a trade-show floor sells out before the doors even open.

Lyrics

Doors ain't open, lines already long

Whole house sold before the doors come on

Badge on my chest, coffee in my cup

Eighty tables in, not ones coming up

Reps in the hallway, pressed and sharp

Booking deals before the rip is stark

Sold out before we open every door

Already spoken,

ribbon drops, the floor ignites

out, before the lights

Sold out, sold out before the lights

Sold out, baby, sold out before the lights

Four o 'clock hits, watch the whole hall move

Nothing left to book, nothing left to prove

Model numbers, prices, who's got what in stock

Talking shop before the demo clock

Sold out before we open

Every door already spoken

Poking, ripping drops, the floor ignites.

Sold out, before the lights.

Take, take, take, take.

Sold out, take, take,

Slow down before the light

Slow down before the light