Count Me In For Tonight

Verse

Last strings of tinsel catching all the porch light

Boxes of ornaments stacked by the door tonight

Twelve months in a shoebox, tied with silver string

We're folding up December like it's one last thing

Your car keys jingle where the mistletoe hung

Frost on the window where our names were young

I know the clock don't wait for anybody's heart

But I'm not ready yet to watch this room go dark

Pre-Chorus

So pour it high and pour it slow

One more song before we go

Can you feel it building, the year about to turn

Some things end so something new can burn

Chorus

Count me in for tonight

One more round of the bright lights

Let the old year burn down easy

Let it go, let it shine

Count me in for tonight

Every ending's a door swung wide

Raise your glass to the goodbye

We're counting down, we're counting on

Count me in for tonight

Verse

The neighbors' porch lights flicker one by one

Somebody's setting off the first of the fun

I'm folding your sweater into my old coat

Keeping the smell of cinnamon and smoke

There's a photograph curling on the mantel shelf

Us in July, laughing at ourselves

The snow don't ask permission when it falls

It just keeps coming till it covers all

Pre-Chorus

So pour it high and pour it slow

One more song before we go

Can you feel it building, the year about to turn

Some things end so something new can burn

Chorus

Count me in for tonight

One more round of the bright lights

Let the old year burn down easy

Let it go, let it shine

Count me in for tonight

Every ending's a door swung wide

Raise your glass to the goodbye

We're counting down, we're counting on

Count me in for tonight

Bridge

Somewhere a clock tower's leaning toward twelve

Somewhere the fireworks are teaching themselves

To rise from the ashes of everything gone

And I'm not scared of the dark anymore

I'm just holding this moment before

The whole sky opens and we walk on

Chorus

Count me in for tonight

One more round of the bright lights

Let the old year burn down easy

Let it go, let it shine

Count me in for tonight

Every ending's a door swung wide

Raise your glass to the goodbye

We're counting down, we're counting on

Count me in for tonight