Cheap Seats Forever

We bought two tickets with the laundry change

Climbed to the rafters where the ghosts behave

You drew a halo on the program face I said,

“This whole town needs a little disgrace” The band looked tiny,

but the noise hit hard Like a

shopping cart crashing through the yard

Everybody wants the velvet rope

We got bad knees and unreasonable hope

Cheap seats

forever, way up in the dark Throwing little matches at a worn-out

heart

No one down below will remember our names

But cheap seats forever still

shake the same Hey,

hey—we’re alive up here Cheap seats forever,

disappear

You stole my jacket,

said the night was cold

We laughed at the people trying hard to look old The singer

missed a line and the whole room sang

For three loud minutes we belonged to a gang

Everybody wants a perfect view

I only came to lose my voice with you

Cheap seats forever, way up

in the dark Throwing little matches at a worn-out heart No one

down below will remember our names But cheap seats forever still shake

the same If this is failure,

turn it up

If this is nothing,

fill my cup

The ceiling’s falling note by note You grab my hand; I miss

the joke Cheap seats forever,

kings of the dark

Throwing both our shadows at a worn-out heart No one

down below has to know why we

came Cheap seats forever still shake the same Hey,

hey—we’re alive up

here

Cheap seats forever, loud and clear