Brass key rests on velvet liner
No door frame to receive the shiner
Arcade hums in minor thirds
Synth chords rise like sanctuary words
Turn the key in empty air
Music swells but no door there
Brass key turns in nothing new
Every lock belongs to you
Quarter ridges score my thumbprint
Pac-Man ghosts in violet tint
CRT glow paints stained glass faces
Choir voices in cable spaces
Turn the key in empty air
Music swells but no door there
Brass key turns in nothing new
Every lock belongs to you
Muted trumpet bleeds through speakers
Hollowbody neck grows weaker
Hammond drawbar pulled to full
Altos hum where bullets pull
Turn the key in empty air
Music swells but no door there
Brass key turns in nothing new
Every lock belongs to you
Ticket redemption counter empty
Skeeball rolls through memory
Carpet pattern burns my knees down
Prayerful posture arcade crown
No latch clicks no bolt slides home
Just synthesizer and chrome
Breath held long in fermata pause
Broken hymn without a cause
Brass key warms in palm sweat now
No door frame no sacred vow
Only chords that rise and fall
Altar call in neon sprawl
Turn the key in empty air
Music swells but no door there
Brass key turns in nothing new
Every lock belongs to you
Turn the key the door is you
Hammond fades on final chord
Brass key rests on velvet board