The Best Place in Town is Also the Darkest
by Jon Eric

You can see them out in herds at night
Vee formation, birds in flight
It’s just how it goes; most folks wouldn’t even think twice about it
But a nerd just might
Get aggravated by the way that the mindless
Take this timeless town and grab hold
Forty-eight powerless hours a week
Not even able to speak, we gotta watch it unfold
They’re all looking for the same place so deep that the light can’t reach
Each one has a dress code all to itself and its very own patterns of speech
So if we find that club and we fall in love
Will it look like the fall of Rome?
I’ma grab your hip, we’re gonna tango dip
On the brown wooden box you call home

[chorus 1]
The best, best, best place in town
Is also the dark, dark, darkest around
And the rich, rich, richest cuisine
Is always for free
The worst, worst, worst place to be
Is somewhere they let in someone like me
Well, the best, best, best place is town
Is always the darkest

No, no, no, no
It’s dark in here, I fear the worst
Tell me, am I blind or cursed?
Or dead or dying, somewhere in between
God won’t tell me where I strayed
Right now there’s nothing I won’t trade
For a glimpse of anyone or anything

My memory will not retrieve
Or something that I can’t believe
The details of the last time I saw the breaking of the day
No solace and no help within
And I won’t feel like myself again
Until some force can chase the dark away

[chorus 2]
I can see, I can see, I can very nearly see
The light, the light
I can smell, I can smell, I would swear to God I smell
The river, flush with fish and rising up in the rain
I can hear, I can hear, in my mind’s ear I can hear
The choir greeting me on sight
It may terrify you, man, but I can verify firsthand
The dark is pain

[chorus 1, then both choruses at once, twice]

Under a new moon, after the embers die
All you can hear are the crickets
And the sizzle of smoldering flame
The smoke burns your nostrils
A cold breeze makes you shiver
Though this evening is long since forgotten
The feeling will always remain