Lyrics
The door swings shut on everything I left behind The amber light does what the amber light does Makes the ugly bearable and softens all the lines And nobody in here is asking why The bartender's already reaching for the glass He's learned the shape of my particular kind of quiet Some people need to talk it out I need to let it pass And this is the only place that understands that It doesn't promise anything It doesn't claim to heal It just keeps the hour still And makes the edges less than real The bar that never closes Keeps the stool warm, keeps the low light on No one here is sleeping No one here has somewhere they belong We're all just pausing In the hours between the dark and dawn The bar that never closes Keeps us going till we're gone My phone's face-down on the mahogany I've had enough of everything it has to say The world was burning when I walked in here tonight It'll still be burning when I walk back out to day The man two stools down hasn't moved in hours He's staring at the middle distance, nursing something brown We've nodded once the way that people do When loneliness is company enough In a room that knows the sound It doesn't ask you why you stayed It doesn't need to know It just holds the night around you Lets the worst of it go slow The bar that never closes Keeps the stool warm, keeps the low light on No one here is sleeping No one here has somewhere they belong We're all just pausing In the hours between the dark and dawn The bar that never closes Keeps us going till we're gone I know this isn't healing I know it isn't rest I know the same sun rises On whatever comes next But the chaos waits outside And I need three more hours Some nights just surviving Is the whole point of the ride The bar that never closes Doesn't ask you what you're running from Just pours the glass And lets the night Run on