Tables After Closing

[Verse 1] The waiter turns chairs while the trio plays one more head. I let the room keep time while the old noise fades. I keep my hands steady and listen for the change. [Pre-Chorus] I leave one table open for a sentence still arriving. Nothing here is borrowed, nothing has to hide. [Chorus] Tables After Closing, stay with me through the turning. Tables After Closing, say the thing the dark could not erase. Carry the honest part into the morning. We will know the way by how the last word lands. [Verse 2] The hour moves forward, leaving room around the truth. I meet it without hurry, without dressing it in gold. What was only distance becomes a road beneath us. What was only silence finds a voice and finds a home. [Bridge] No borrowed thunder, no convenient ending. Only breath, only ground, only one clear name. [Final Chorus] Tables After Closing, stay with me through the turning. Carry the honest part into the morning. We will know the way by how the last word lands.