[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.