[Intro: pulsing keyboard bass and a ticking drum machine, female voice with echo, spoken] Is anybody still here [Verse 1] I work the night desk at a gym in Milan Twenty four hours, and by two I'm the only man It was a disco in the eighties, and they painted it gray And they left the mirror ball 'cause it's too high to take away Then at three thirty three the speakers start to play A song that isn't on the list, and the volume won't obey And bike thirteen in the second row starts spinning on its own Nobody in the saddle, but the pedals know the song [Pre-Chorus] Somebody's riding (riding) Somebody's there (there) Mirror ball turning in the empty air [Chorus] Open all night (open all night) Ride with me, I won't turn off the light Open all night (open all night) There's a seat for you in the second row tonight I keep the doors unlocked, I keep the music on Ride with me till the morning, ride until you're gone [Verse 2] The six a.m. crew swears the seat on thirteen's always warm And the manager says call a priest, I say, she means no harm Then behind locker nine I find a flyer, curled and brown Ladies free before midnight, Stella, best moves in town So I take bike twelve and ride beside her in the dark And she whispers through the speakers, faster, every time I start [Pre-Chorus] Somebody's riding (riding) Somebody's there (there) Mirror ball turning in the empty air [Chorus] Open all night (open all night) Ride with me, I won't turn off the light Open all night (open all night) There's a seat for you in the second row tonight I keep the doors unlocked, I keep the music on Ride with me till the morning, ride until you're gone [Bridge: beat thins to kick and pulsing bass, female voice with echo] They closed the doors in eighty six And I was still out on the floor Nobody came to dance with me Nobody came back anymore [Male voice, spoken] Then I'll bring them [Verse 3] On Halloween I tape a sign up, three a.m., come as you please And half the city shows in bedsheets, capes, and plastic teeth Forty bikes and forty riders, every one of them in masks Then at three thirty three the mirror ball lights up at last And every pedal's spinning, and the room is pouring sweat And nobody knows which rider's real, and nobody wants to check [Final Chorus] Open all night (open all night) Ride with me, I won't turn off the light Open all night (open all night) There's a crowd for you in the second row tonight I keep the doors unlocked, I keep the music on Ride with me till the morning, and then you're gone [Outro: male voice spoken, then female voice with echo] Six a.m., I check the sign in sheet Forty names, and one in old blue ink (Stella. See you next year)
