Exit Sign Green

[Verse 1]
The painted Jupiter on the ceiling of Starlight Skates
Is flaking off in time with lazy figure eights.
The last Tuesday in a frozen-over February,
And the chill off the emergency door feels temporary.
Your hand isn't in mine, but I still feel the weight.

[Chorus]
And you move on the floor like you own the whole room,
But all I can see is the exit sign green.
We're just going in circles, avoiding the view
Of the one open doorway we've never been through.

[Verse 2]
Remember our first place, that second-floor walk-up?
'That window's painted shut,' you said, 'for a reason.'
I smelled the popcorn here and it was enough
To bring back the dust of that whole busted season.
You traced the foundations with the toe of your skate.

[Chorus]
And you move on the floor like you own the whole room,
But all I can see is the exit sign green.
We're just going in circles, avoiding the view
Of the one open doorway we've never been through.

[Bridge]
I could cross the floor, I could build a new bridge.
But some walls you just leave standing, right where they is.

[Outro]
Just the hum of the wheels and the exit sign green.
Yeah, the hum of the wheels and the exit sign green.