[Intro] [slow piano, organ swell] [Verse 1] She could stop a room mid-sentence Every lens already turning Silk and sequins, spotlight white The whole room leaned in when she smiled [Pre-Chorus] But marquees fade when nobody's looking And names dissolve in rain [Chorus] She kept the last light on Long after everyone was gone No audience, no ovation Just the quiet and the dawn She kept the last light on [Verse 2] Her hands forgot their lines But her jaw still held the pose She slowed to half a step Still dressed like she never closed [Pre-Chorus] The body steals what the will won't surrender And still she wore it well [Chorus] She kept the last light on Long after everyone was gone No audience, no ovation Just the quiet and the dawn She kept the last light on [Bridge] They wrote her off in column six A footnote, not a name But dying slow with dignity Is the hardest kind of fame [Final Chorus] She kept the last light on Long after everyone was gone No curtain call, no encore She was the light, not just the bloom She kept the last light on [Outro] [piano fading, whispered] The last light on...
