Track 10 of the album The Third Chair · 2015
Who Remembers the Last Slow Dance
“The gym is quiet and the janitor hums. I'm in the song as the one who stayed behind to hear it.”
jazz ballad · nostalgic ballad · waltz · 3:17
Lyrics
The gym is quiet, the banners down A janitor hums and sweeps the floor A single flower in the lost and found Someone's night, and nothing more I came in once with my heart in my throat In a dress my sister let me borrow I stood by the wall in a paper coat And I wished for a hand to follow Who remembers the last slow dance The way the old gym held its breath Who remembers the lucky chance The one you took, or let go Oh, the gym is dark and the hoops are bare But a little of us is still there Forty years and the floor still gleams With all the steps that nobody kept I hear the song in my quiet dreams The one that played while the whole room slept Somewhere a man with silver hair Remembers a girl by the door And the song they played, and the way She didn't ask for more Who remembers the last slow dance The way the old gym held its breath Who remembers the lucky chance The one you took, or let go Oh, the gym is dark and the hoops are bare But a little of us is still there A little of us is still there