[Intro] [Quiet guitar. Glass set on table.] [Bard] You ever hear something in the middle of the night... and decide what it was before you even got outta bed? [Crowd murmurs] Yeah. That's how good stories start. That's also how bad answers start. [Three bass notes] [Verse 1] Heard something breathing through the wall one night Could've been the pipes, could've been my mind Could've called it heaven, could've called it strange Could've picked a story and explained it all away Instead I grabbed my coat Walked out the door Cold boards, wet grass Didn't know what for Found a little window I forgot was there Light behind the glass In a room with an empty chair [Pre-Chorus] [Bard] So what'd I do? [One person] Go look? [Bard] Exactly. [Chorus] I walked around the building Slow enough to see Didn't need the thing I heard To agree with me Walked around the building Didn't need a sign Sometimes changing where you stand Changes what you find [Bard] What'd you do? [Crowd] GO LOOK! [Bard] What'd you prove? [Crowd] DON'T KNOW! [Bard] Good. Neither did I. [Verse 2] Everybody wants a name Before the echo dies Ghost God Grief Bad wiring Good wine [Crowd laughs] Me, I like the yard at night When I'm not sure yet Wonder gets a little room And truth don't owe me debt Found that light was just a bulb Somebody left behind Sound was probably old pipes Knocking out of time Should've killed the story Funny thing— It didn't. It just changed The kind of story I was in [Pre-Chorus] Some things shrink When you walk toward them Some things grow Some things wait Till you change your position Before they show [Chorus] I walked around the building Slow enough to see Didn't need the thing I heard To agree with me Walked around the building Didn't need a sign Sometimes changing where you stand Changes what you find [Bard] What'd you do? [Crowd] GO LOOK! [Bard] What'd you prove? [Crowd] DON'T KNOW! [Bard] Now you're getting it. [Bridge] [Band stops.] [Bard] Years later... I heard something again. Different wall. Different room. [Knock] Didn't sound like pipes. [Knock] Didn't sound like anything I'd heard before. [Someone begins knocking a table.] KNOCK... KNOCK... [Another table joins.] KNOCK... KNOCK... [Whole room slowly joins.] [Bard] And here's where you'd like me to tell you what I found. [Silence] No. I walked around the building. [Band slams back in.] [Final Chorus] I WALKED AROUND THE BUILDING! [Crowd] GO LOOK! [Bard] Went and saw it for myself! [Crowd] GO LOOK! [Bard] Didn't need a ghost! Didn't need a lie! Didn't need somebody else's Answer to be mine! Some nights there's nothing! [Crowd] GO LOOK! Some nights something moves! [Crowd] GO LOOK! [Bard] Either way— Don't tell me what was there If you never left the room! [All] GO LOOK! GO LOOK! GO LOOK! [Outro] [Three bass notes return.] [Bard] Still don't know what that second sound was. [Pause] Haven't found that building yet. [Single table knock.] [Bard] ...That's odd.
