///*****/// [Intro] One acoustic in an empty room And a storm about to start [Verse 1] So that is thirty songs of it And a life laid on the floor Every window I have looked through Every kitchen, every door There is a girl on a fire escape And a boy beneath a bed There is a mother in a driveway And a friend who is not dead Because I put him in a chorus And he lives there when I play And that is the entire trick of it And it is not a small thing to say [Pre-Chorus] Because a song is just a shelter That you build for other people And you never see who enters And you never see them leave [Chorus] So give me candlelight and thunder Give me quiet and the roar Give me one hand on a six-string And the whole world at the door I will take the aching with the beautiful I will take them both together Give me candlelight and thunder And I will sing in any weather Candlelight and thunder [Verse 2] There is a version of this business That is limousines and lies And I have been down in that basement And I nearly did not rise But the actual thing is smaller And it happens in the dark When somebody in a bad year Puts a needle on a track And for three and a half minutes They are not alone in there And nobody gets a statue And nobody knows it happened [Pre-Chorus] And that is worth a life of it And that is worth the road And every empty morning And every heavy load [Chorus] So give me candlelight and thunder Give me quiet and the roar Give me one hand on a six-string And the whole world at the door I will take the aching with the beautiful I will take them both together Give me candlelight and thunder And I will sing in any weather Candlelight and thunder [Verse 3] So when you put this record on At two or three or four And the house is very silent And the year has been a war I want you to know I meant it Every ordinary line That there is nothing in these songs That was not first in mine And the fire escape is real And the river and the rust And the woman with the silver hair And every one of us [Pre-Chorus] So light it up wherever you are In a kitchen or a car Hold it up above your head Like they did in the dark [Bridge] We were candles in the coliseum And we are candles here tonight And it does not take a stadium To hold a decent light Just a person and another And a song between the two [Guitar Solo] [Final Chorus] So give me candlelight and thunder Give me quiet and the roar Give me one hand on a six-string And the whole world at the door I will take the aching with the beautiful I will take them both forever Give me candlelight and thunder And I will sing in any weather Candlelight and thunder [Coda] Goodnight from the coliseum Goodnight from the rain Goodnight from the highway And the trestle and the train Turn it over, play it backward Play it once a year Every one of you was in it And I am glad that you were here [Outro] One acoustic in an empty room And a storm about to start And a candle in a window And a thunder in a heart
