Lyrics
[verse]
I remember the transistor on the shelf
Static crackling, a song I learned myself
The paper said the singer left the stage
Folded up like a closing page
We rode our bikes down a gravel lane
Talking 'bout a music that would never be the same
Something shifted in the autumn air
A kind of silence that wasn't fair
[chorus]
So play me something, play it slow and true
Take me back to a night I never knew
Sing the words that the radio forgot
Give me back the beat that time has fought
Play me something, one more time tonight
Chase away this long and fading light
[verse]
Down at the diner where the jukebox hums
Old men talking 'bout the songs to come
A preacher's daughter with a tambourine
Dancing to a tune that no one's seen
The chorus rusted, the melody bent
Nobody knows exactly where the summer went
But somewhere out beyond the county line
A radio still keeps the rhythm fine
[chorus]
So play me something, play it slow and true
Take me back to a night I never knew
Sing the words that the radio forgot
Give me back the beat that time has fought
Play me something, one more time tonight
Chase away this long and fading light
[bridge]
The years keep turning like a record spins
Every ending is where a story begins
I still hear the echo down the empty street
A ghost of rhythm, a phantom beat
[chorus]
So play me something, play it slow and true
Take me back to a night I never knew
Sing the words that the radio forgot
Give me back the beat that time has fought
Play me something, one more time tonight
Chase away this long and fading light
