Free Audio Ballroom

[Verse 1] Roll up, roll up, to the velvet curtain call Where the speakers hum and the shadows softly fall No ticket at the door, no secret hand to shake Just a open stage for goodness and for goodness sake The piano man is blind but he can see your soul The drums are made of tin but they can make you whole The microphone is cracked but it can catch your sigh And the moon is just a spotlight in a painted sky [Pre-Chorus] So step into the glow where the echoes never die Leave your heavy silence at the corner of the sky The band is just beginning and the door is open wide There is room upon the floor for the music trapped inside [Chorus] Welcome to the Free Audio Ballroom, where the sound is always kind Every note's a welcome mat for the weary and the blind Welcome to the Free Audio Ballroom, let the melody unspin The walls are made of echoes and you're always let in No lock upon the rhythm, no chain around the tune Just a free audio ballroom underneath the paper moon [Verse 2] The bassoon player left his coat upon the chair The clarinet is crying like it lost its prayer The trombone slides into a sentimental groove And the cymbals crash like waves that never need to prove A juggler tosses notes instead of wooden balls A tightrope walker balances on trumpet calls The audience is ghosts of every song you knew And they clap with phantom hands because they're just like you [Pre-Chorus] So step into the glow where the echoes never die Leave your heavy silence at the corner of the sky The band is just beginning and the door is open wide There is room upon the floor for the music trapped inside [Chorus] Welcome to the Free Audio Ballroom, where the sound is always kind Every note's a welcome mat for the weary and the blind Welcome to the Free Audio Ballroom, let the melody unspin The walls are made of echoes and you're always let in No lock upon the rhythm, no chain around the tune Just a free audio ballroom underneath the paper moon [Verse 3] The songbird in the rafters sings a broken scale The cello is a ship with just a single sail The flute is made of glass and filled with amber light The saxophone is howling at the edge of night The conductor is a cat with whiskers made of wire The sheet music is on fire but it burns with desire The final chord is hanging like a chandelier And it shatters into sparkles you can almost hear [Bridge] And when the night is over and the instruments are still The song remains a lantern on a lonely hill You can carry it in pockets, you can wear it like a crown You can scatter it like stardust on a sleeping town It costs you nothing but a listening ear And the ballroom will remember every time you're here [Pre-Chorus] So step into the glow where the echoes never die Leave your heavy silence at the corner of the sky The band is just beginning and the door is open wide There is room upon the floor for the music trapped inside [Chorus] Welcome to the Free Audio Ballroom, where the sound is always kind Every note's a welcome mat for the weary and the blind Welcome to the Free Audio Ballroom, let the melody unspin The walls are made of echoes and you're always let in No lock upon the rhythm, no chain around the tune Just a free audio ballroom underneath the paper moon [Outro] So come back to the ballroom when your heart is out of tune The free audio will find you underneath the paper moon [End]