Tape Marks on the Basement Floor · 地下室地板上的胶带印

[Verse 1]

The landlord's coming Tuesday with a clipboard and a plan

They're tearing out the ceiling and they're painting over everything we had

But under twenty years of dust and spilled beer on the floor

There's four squares of red and blue and yellow where we stood before

[Pre-Chorus]

Drums in the corner, bass by the stairs

Mike right in the middle with his hands up in the air

And me against the wall with a cable wrapped around my wrist

We were loud in a room that couldn't hold it, and I miss

[Chorus]

Tape marks on the basement floor where the four of us stood

Concrete remembers the shape of a band, concrete remembers good

We were loud in a room that couldn't hold it, we were young and we were wrong

Tape marks on the basement floor, and the four of us are gone

[Verse 2]

Danny's in Columbus fixing cars since twenty-nine

Sarah's got two kids in Denver and she calls me once in a while

Mike went out to Nashville chasing something with a beard

And I'm standing in this basement like an idiot, still here

[Pre-Chorus]

Drums in the corner, bass by the stairs

Mike right in the middle with his hands up in the air

And me against the wall with a cable wrapped around my wrist

We were loud in a room that couldn't hold it, and I miss

[Chorus]

Tape marks on the basement floor where the four of us stood

Concrete remembers the shape of a band, concrete remembers good

We were loud in a room that couldn't hold it, we were young and we were wrong

Tape marks on the basement floor, and the four of us are gone

[Bridge]

They can paint the whole thing over, they can put a gym upstairs

They can name the building something with a founder and a chair

But you can't tape a square of color on a floor and take it back

Every time you stand inside it, something in you starts to crack

And I'd give the whole damn decade just to hear the count-off once

One, two, three, four

[Final Chorus]

Tape marks on the basement floor where the four of us stood

Concrete remembers the shape of a band, concrete remembers good

We were loud in a room that couldn't hold it, we were young and we were wrong

Tape marks on the basement floor, and the four of us are gone

Yeah, the four of us are gone, but the floor still knows the song

[Outro]

Drums in the corner, bass by the stairs

Four squares of tape and a whole damn future

Four squares of tape and a whole damn future