[Intro][The unaccompanied "Aye" fades. The singer teaches the title over a muted three-note guitar figure.] [Lead / Audience] The last room standing. / The last room standing! [Verse 1] The sale remains signed and the deadline still stays; The roof still takes water on hard rainy days. The bank has promised nothing; the price has not moved. A vote is a start, not a victory proved. But names fill the pages from doorway to bar, With numbers and trades and the streets where they are. [Pre-Chorus] Keep one lamp burning over Door 47. Keep Moe's camera; keep names from the plaster. Keep the red curtain, each patch and each thread. The doors stay unlocked while work lies ahead. [Chorus] We are the last room standing, Not the last song sung. We are the hands still working When the shouted words are done. Nobody starts in an arena; We are the last room standing. [Verse 2] The famous may visit; the papers may call, But Sunday still needs someone mopping the hall. The opener needs payment; engineers need sleep; The bar needs fair wages; the bands need their fee. Ownership means coming when the boiler fails, And arguing in daylight through payment details. [Pre-Chorus] Keep one lamp burning over Door 47. Keep Moe's photographs ordered and labelled. Keep the red curtain, each patch and each thread. The doors stay unlocked while work lies ahead. [Chorus] We are the last room standing, Not the last song sung. We are the hands still working When the shouted words are done. Nobody starts in an arena; We are the last room standing. [Instrumental Break][Lead guitar plays the album's three-note motif. The crowd hums the chorus melody; Wurlitzer answers from track three.] [Verse 3] Someday another van, its back tied with rope, May unload in rain with nerves pulled tight. The band's name will be tiny; the soundcheck too short; The singer will wonder if showing up matters. Moe may have retired, but the camera will stay; Someone younger will focus and capture that day. [Verse 4] They will stand under red with both hands shaking hard, Lose half of the first song, then find where they are. One stranger will listen; one stranger will clap. The wall gets a new name beside the old marks. [Bridge] Do not call this an ending because house lights rise. Tomorrow is forms, leaking roofs and replies. Tonight gave the future an address and name: A low wooden stage where the next band can change. [Final Chorus: Lead Vocal] We are— [Final Chorus: Audience] The last room standing, Not the last song sung. We are the hands still working When the shouted words are done. Nobody starts in an arena; We are the last room standing. [Audience Refrain][The band drops out. The crowd continues in the real room acoustic.] The last room standing! Nobody starts in an arena! The last room standing! [Climax][The full band returns for one final pass while the crowd keeps the pulse.] [Lead Vocal] Keep Door 47 open. Keep the red curtain red. [Lead / Audience] Who keeps the room standing? / We keep the room standing! [Final Refrain: All] We are the last room standing, Not the last song sung. Nobody starts in an arena; The work has just begun. [Post-show Coda][The audience leaves in real time. One clean guitar continues under keys being placed on the bar.] [Lead Vocal: Soft] The floor is finally empty. The red curtain hangs still. Moe turns off the bar lights, But leaves one lamp above the stage. [Outro][One open chord rings through the empty Lantern Room.] Leave one light on.