[Intro: Hi-NRG male lead, pounding kick, keyboard stabs] Hour twenty, Saint Brendan's gym, the lights are buzzin' blue Marisol is on my shoulder and the judge is lookin' through [Verse 1: Hi-NRG male lead, punchy and bright over pounding kick] Twenty-four hours for the children's ward, no sittin', no knees Ten minutes off for every four, a judge with a clipboard and keys Forty couples at the start in matching shirts and a cause By hour sixteen we were nine and a snack table cleaned of its straws Couple twelve were college runners, legs like pistons, eyes like glass Couple three were ballroom people, spinnin' like they're showin' class And then us, two night-shift nurses who signed up on a dare With a bet against the charge nurse and a coffee each to spare [Hook: Hi-NRG male lead, full band, big bright chorus] We're the last couple standin', and I mean it how it sounds She's asleep up on my shoulder and I'm steerin' us around Hour twenty, hour twenty-one, we never sit, we never fall We're the last couple standin', and we're barely up at all [Verse 2: Hi-NRG male lead, faster, octave bass jumpin'] Hour nineteen Marisol said I can't, my eyes are sand I said put your head right here and let me hold the weight, I'll stand So she slept, standin' up, with her feet on top of mine And I swayed us to the music and the judge thought we were fine Hour twenty-one I'm fadin', so she wakes and takes the load I go limp against her collar and she steers me down the road Nine hours, turn by turn, we slept in shifts and no one knew Couple twelve were wide awake, and that's the thing that wore 'em through [Build: Hi-NRG male lead, second wind, both awake at once, the kick gets heavier and the bass leaps up] Hour twenty-three, the both of us awake Same song, same floor, and every muscle shakes Couple twelve went down like dominoes, one, two And the judge looked up and pointed, sayin' you [Hook: Hi-NRG male lead, full band, big bright chorus] We're the last couple standin', and I mean it how it sounds She's asleep up on my shoulder and I'm steerin' us around Hour twenty, hour twenty-one, we never sit, we never fall We're the last couple standin', and we're barely up at all [Verse 3: Hi-NRG male lead, full band, victory lap] When the horn went off at twenty-four we were standin' on the tape Two nurses and a trophy and a hospital to make Campus paper asked the secret and I told 'em how it was Half the time she's dreamin', half the time I'm dreamin', 'cause You don't win it standin' up, you win it leanin' on the one Who's awake when you are not, and she was, and so we won [Hook: Hi-NRG male lead, full band, big bright chorus] We're the last couple standin', and I mean it how it sounds She's asleep up on my shoulder and I'm steerin' us around Hour twenty, hour twenty-one, we never sit, we never fall We're the last couple standin', and we're barely up at all [End]
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