The Gym Floor Still Remembers

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The paper streamers droop and sway
The punch bowl's almost dry
The janitor sweeps the glitter away
Under the basketball hoop's old eye
A single shoe by the bleachers
A ribbon on the floor
The band has packed their cases
And the music plays no more

The gym floor still remembers
Every step we took that night
Every nervous, shaking shoulder
Every borrowed bit of light
Though the doors are closing slowly
And the lamps are going dim
The gym floor still remembers
Where the dancing was

I was standing by the wall
And you crossed the room to me
You said, I cannot dance at all
I said, then dance with me
We swayed upon the boards
In a ring of fading blue
I never knew a song could hold
Two people, me and you

The gym floor still remembers
Every step we took that night
Every nervous, shaking shoulder
Every borrowed bit of light
Though the doors are closing slowly
And the lamps are going dim
The gym floor still remembers
Where the dancing was

I walk the line of painted court
Where the old game used to be
The echoes in the rafters
Hum the last slow song for me
And if you pass this way
Stand a moment, close your eyes

Now the lights go out in rows
Click by click by click
The dark is soft as velvet
And the quiet's warm and thick
I touch the corsage petals
Pressed inside my coat
And I whisper to the empty hall
The words I never wrote

The gym floor still remembers
Every step we took that night
Every nervous, shaking shoulder
Every borrowed bit of light
Though the doors are closing slowly
And the lamps are going dim
The gym floor still remembers
Where the dancing was

The gym floor still remembers
Where the dancing was