The Neon Open Sign · 霓虹营业灯牌

[Verse 1]

Three a.m. on a Tuesday and the sign is doing that thing

Where the O goes dark for a second and the N comes back to sing

Somebody should have fixed it in the summer of '19

But the owner says it's character, and the character's on me

[Pre-Chorus]

And the sugar jar is full and the coffee's on its third

And nobody's said a single solitary word

[Chorus]

The neon open sign's got a tube that's going out

Three a.m. and nobody's asking us to leave

We're all just waiting for the second that it holds

The only light in this city that don't tell you what to be

The neon open sign, and we're sitting underneath

[Verse 2]

There's a nurse in the corner with her shoes upon the seat

There's a driver counting quarters and a couple in a fight

There's a kid who's been studying since the middle of the night

And nobody knows anybody's name and that's exactly right

[Pre-Chorus 2]

And the sugar jar is full and the coffee's on its third

And the window's fogging over from the heat of every word

[Chorus 2]

The neon open sign's got a tube that's going out

Three a.m. and nobody's asking us to leave

We're all just waiting for the second that it holds

The only light in this city that don't tell you what to be

The neon open sign, and we're sitting underneath

[Bridge]

And I know it's just a tube with a little gas inside

And I know the morning's coming and the parking lot will clear

But there's something in a light that never tells you to go home

That makes a stranger feel like something almost like a friend

And it flickers

And it holds

And it flickers

And it holds

[Final Chorus]

The neon open sign's got a tube that's going out

Three a.m. and the whole damn room is breathing in the same

We're all just waiting for the second that it holds

And when it finally goes we're gonna sit here anyway

The neon open sign — and nobody's leaving anyway

(Nobody's leaving anyway)

[Outro]

And it flickers, and it holds

And it flickers, and it holds

The neon open sign