[Intro]
[Clean major-key motif; a pen clicks against glass.]

[Male Vocal]
[Verse 1]
He knew my name, our every shame,
Said, "I saw you here when you had flame."
A black folder, one gold star,
Drawings of a rooftop bar.
"One legacy act, one filmed event.
Your answer's due before midnight."

[Pre-Chorus]
One blank line, one polished pen,
One door shuts, one opens then.

[Chorus]
[Male & Female Duet]
Sign here for tomorrow,
Trade the room for something borrowed.
Sell the name and save the face,
Let them build upon this place.
One clean line, one future sold;
Sign your youth before it's old.

[Verse 2]
[Male Vocal]
You called it bait; I called it work.
You called it late; I called it worth it.

[Female Vocal]
You said our songs could still survive.
Not stuffed and sold to look alive.

[Male Vocal]
We've waited thirty years for proof.

[Female Vocal]
Then don't hang our past from their roof.

[Chorus]
[Male & Female Duet]
Sign here for tomorrow,
Trade the room for something borrowed.
Sell the name and save the face,
Let them build upon this place.
One clean line, one future sold;
Sign your youth before it's old.

[Instrumental Break]
[Talk-box guitar repeats the pen-click rhythm; drums shift to straight time.]

[Bridge]
[Male Vocal]
I did it for the band.

[Female Vocal]
Then why hide your hand?

[Male Vocal]
I'm tired of almost, tired of near.

[Female Vocal]
You picked the men who closed the doors.

[Final Chorus]
[Male Vocal]
Sign here for tomorrow,
Trade your people for a logo.
Sell the night and rent the face,
Smile above the buried place.
One clean line, one friendship sold;
I signed my youth because I'm old.

[Outro]
[Female Vocal]
I took my red guitar and went.

[Male Vocal]
The contract dried; the crowd pressed on.