[Verse 1] [Male] There's a red book on the table, gold script on the cover, [Female] Every page a doorway somebody once walked through. [Male] Nobody here met Bill, nobody here met Bob, [Female] But somebody carried hope to the first scared soul we knew. [Male & Female] Who was our Ebby? Who was our Bill? Who was our Bob? And who am I an Ebby to tonight? [Verse 2] [Male] No conference yet, no structure, just a room and an open hand, [Female] A grange, a church basement, a storefront on the street. [Male] Signor, George Doerr, Charlie Bogan, Big Ed Myers, [Male & Female] They didn't found A.A., they gave it life right here. [Chorus] [Female] Somebody said yes, [Male] Somebody opened the door, [Female] Somebody made the coffee and set out one more chair. [Male & Female] We are the living demonstration of what they showed us before, Carrying the message, one alcoholic there. [Verse 3] [Male] Jim remembered the people, [Female] I followed the records, [Male & Female] Two friends and a scrapbook, and the names came back to life. [Male] Inez kept the pages in nineteen eighty-four, [Female] Twenty-six rooms on a map, every root a person, every branch a night. [Verse 4] [Male] Around nineteen-ninety, Central Service stood on its own, [Female] Five committees, seven districts, and a phone that got answered. [Male] June of twenty-fourteen, they voted to sell the coins, [Female] I wrote my objection, and I walked outside alone. [Male & Female] And Crystal came outside, and Crystal stayed. [Chorus] [Female] Somebody said yes, [Male] Somebody opened the door, [Female] Somebody made the coffee and set out one more chair. [Male & Female] We are the living demonstration of what they showed us before, Carrying the message, one alcoholic there. [Bridge] [Male] The coin in fifty-two said humility, [Female] And beside it, compassion. [Male & Female] Lead with those two, and the three legacies show: [Male] Recovery, [Female] Unity, [Male & Female] Service, wherever those two go. [Verse 5] [Male] Twelve years side by side, not just crossing paths, [Female] Chair, registrar, archivist, secretary, delegate. [Male] Tonight, three hundred people, and a committee [Female] Who cared about the office, and said yes. [Male & Female] The book is not closed. Every call answered, every story kept Becomes the next page. [Final Chorus] [Slow, half-time] [Male & Female] We are the living demonstration. [Spoken] And now, Crystal.
