ONE BULB BURNING
A company of performers nobody would cast, who built their own stage
style
the numbers
- bpm
- 129
- key
- D# major
- energy
- 0.65
- dance
- 0.93
- valence
- 0.54
- vocal at
- 7.7s
- length
- 2:47
- language
- En
lyrics
(one bulb clicks on, center stage) They say every theatre keeps one burning. Tomorrow there's a wrecking crew Tonight there's me, and then there's you Chalk names climbing up the fly rail Sixty years of hit and fail (listen... the boards remember) Every bow that broke our backs Every laugh that left a crack (we were here, we were here) Leave the light on! (leave the light on) Leave the light on! When the walls come down at dawn Leave the light on! Every ghost deserves a home Leave the light on! (on! on! on!) There's gum beneath seat twelve, row C Since nineteen-seventy-three A dressing room door signed in pen By kids who all grew up since then (we were the kids, we were the kids) Take the velvet, crate the brass The echo isn't in the glass It's in us, it's in us (rising, rising) Leave the light on! (leave the light on) Leave the light on! When the walls come down at dawn Leave the light on! Every ghost deserves a home Leave the light on! (on! on! on!) What happens to the stories? (soft strings underneath) They come with us. All of them. (a single note holds... and lifts) Leave the light on! (leave the light on!) Leave the light on! Sing it louder than the dawn Leave the light on! Carry every ghost along Leave the light on! (on! on! ooooon!) (footsteps fade into the wings) (the bulb hums on) Leave it on... leave it on... (mmm)