[Intro: church organ swell, piano, choir hum] Two a.m. Keys in my hand Who's riding with me [Verse 1] Friday off Westheimer and the bars let out at two Here comes my old crew stumbling out like they always do Jay rides shotgun singing every song a little wrong Monica's in the back seat crying over a man that's gone Big Lou fell asleep with half a taco in his hand Three of them loud and me at the wheel, as steady as I can A year ago they took my keys and laid me in the back Now I hold the keys all night, I'm the one who brings 'em back [Pre-Chorus: hushed, piano and voice] I don't need the glass no more I just need the road And somebody's door at the end of it And a light to show [Chorus: choir answers] I take everybody home (everybody home) Down the yellow lights on an empty road (everybody home) Wait until your hall light's on before I go I was the one they carried Now I carry you home I take everybody home (everybody home) [Verse 2] Drop Monica in Montrose and she asks me how I quit I said one day and then another and I'm still inside of it Jay in the Third Ward says his girl is due in May Asks will I be the godfather, I said ask me sober, Jay Lou wakes up in the Heights and says you don't have to, man Every Friday night, and I say you don't understand Then I ride the empty loop with the radio turned down Watching every tower window going dark across the town [Pre-Chorus: hushed, piano and voice] Some nights I still feel the pull When the bar lights glow But I got three lives in this car with me And that's all I need to know [Chorus: choir answers] I take everybody home (everybody home) Down the yellow lights on an empty road (everybody home) Wait until your hall light's on before I go I was the one they carried Now I carry you home I take everybody home (everybody home) [Bridge: organ and choir build, handclaps] One year on a Friday and I walk in that church hall There's Jay and Monica and Lou lined up along the wall Stone cold sober, all three, and Jay is jingling his keys Says brother, take the back seat, tonight you ride with me They clapped me to the front to get my coin, a year, I held it high Lou said we're going the long way home, and none of us were dry [Final Chorus: key lift, full choir] They take everybody home (everybody home) Jay at the wheel and the radio low (everybody home) They waited till my hall light was on to go I was the one they carried Now we carry each other home We take everybody home (everybody home) [Outro: organ and voice] Hall light on Keys on the hook Everybody home
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