[Intro] [Heart] Something weird happened yesterday. Gas station. Guy looks at me and says— [Crowd Member] "Keep the door open!" [Heart stops] ... See? That's exactly the problem. [Crowd laughs] I didn't even tell you the line yet. [Acoustic guitar begins] [Verse 1] Used to talk into an empty room Hear my own words hit the wall Say something I thought mattered Nobody answered me at all Midnight, chalk dust, one bare light Me explaining what I'd found Funny what you learn about your voice When there's nobody else around Then years go by A stranger stops Beside pump number three Says something I said long ago Except— He says it better than me [Crowd laughs] [Pre-Chorus] A sentence leaves your mouth Gets carried through a door Lives inside somebody else It ain't only yours anymore [Chorus] The room talks back now [Crowd softly] Talks back now... [Heart] Says what I said Means something new The room talks back now [Crowd] Talks back now... [Heart] I throw one voice out It comes back two Sometimes I hear myself Sometimes I hear all of you And sometimes— [Crowd Member] You don't know who said it first. [Band stops] [Heart] ... I don't. [Band resumes] [Verse 2] Met somebody who knew that name Before he knew the man Said, "You helped me through a year I didn't think I'd understand." I said, "That's not exactly who I am." He smiled. Said, "Maybe not to you." [Room quiets] "But that's the man who sat beside me when I needed someone to." [Heart] Couldn't argue with that. Words get fingerprints From everybody passing through One person changes where they breathe Another changes what they knew Soon the thing you built alone Has rooms you've never seen And somebody's living comfortably Inside what you thought you meant [Pre-Chorus] I used to be the only one Who knew what I was trying to say Now half this room knows every word— [Crowd] A DIFFERENT WAY! [Heart laughs] Exactly. [Chorus] The room talks back now [Crowd] TALKS BACK NOW! [Heart] Says what I said Means something new The room talks back now [Crowd] TALKS BACK NOW! [Heart] I throw one voice out— [Crowd] IT COMES BACK TWO! [Heart] Sometimes I hear myself [Crowd] Sometimes you hear us too! [Heart] And sometimes— [Crowd] YOU DON'T KNOW WHO SAID IT FIRST! [Heart] You're getting irritatingly good at this. [Instrumental] [Bridge] [Music falls to acoustic guitar] [Heart] Can I tell you something? Some nights... I miss when nobody answered. [Room quiet] Not because this isn't beautiful. Because silence never misunderstood me. [Pause] But silence never surprised me either. [Someone in crowd] We do! [Heart laughs] Yeah. You do. [Heart] Maybe that's the bargain. You give something away and lose control of what it means. [Crowd Member] Or it gets bigger. [Long pause] [Heart] ... Whose song is this? [Crowd laughter] [Band quietly returns] [Final Chorus] [Heart] The room talks back now— [Crowd] TALKS BACK NOW! [Heart] Takes what I said— [Crowd] MAKES SOMETHING NEW! [Heart] The room talks back now— [Crowd] WE'RE TALKING TO YOU! [Heart] Sometimes I hear myself— [Crowd] SOMETIMES YOU HEAR US TOO! [Heart] And sometimes I— [Crowd begins before him] DON'T KNOW WHO SAID IT FIRST! [Heart stops singing] [Crowd continues] THE ROOM TALKS BACK NOW THE ROOM TALKS BACK NOW [Band keeps playing] [Heart, quietly] Listen to that. [Heart doesn't rejoin] [Crowd] THE ROOM TALKS BACK NOW [Outro] [Music begins fading beneath crowd] [Heart] Used to wonder if anything I said ever landed. [Looks toward crowd] Guess I was asking the wrong room. [Crowd continues singing after Heart's microphone goes quiet]
