Old City Bar-Trans-Siberian Orchestra

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[ar:Trans-Siberian Orchestra]
[al:Tales of Winter: Selections from the TSO Rock Operas]
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[00:00.00]Old City Bar - Trans-Siberian Orchestra
[00:13.43]In an old city bar
[00:16.50]That is never too far
[00:19.56]From the places that gather
[00:22.82]The dreams that have been
[00:26.15]In the safety of night
[00:29.49]With its old neon light
[00:32.69]It beckons to strangers
[00:36.08]And they always come in
[00:39.21]And the snow it was falling
[00:42.58]The neon was calling
[00:45.58]The music was low
[00:48.92]And the night
[00:50.80]Christmas Eve
[00:53.11]And here was the danger
[00:56.02]That even with strangers
[00:59.49]Inside of this night
[01:02.87]It's easier to believe
[01:19.20]Then the door opened wide
[01:22.69]And a child came inside
[01:25.81]That no one in the bar
[01:29.06]Had seen there before
[01:32.34]And he asked did we know
[01:35.39]That outside in the snow
[01:38.93]That someone was lost
[01:41.86]Standing outside our door
[01:45.30]Then the bartender gazed
[01:48.55]Through the smoke and the haze
[01:52.04]The window and ice
[01:55.10]That corner streetlight
[01:58.37]Where standing alone
[02:01.50]By a broken pay phone
[02:04.69]Was a girl the child said
[02:07.77]Could no longer get home
[02:11.37]And the snow it was falling
[02:14.72]The neon was calling
[02:18.06]The bartender turned
[02:20.83]And said not that I care
[02:24.99]But how would you know this
[02:28.14]The child said I've noticed
[02:31.83]If one could be home
[02:36.37]They'd be all ready there
[02:50.72]Then the bartender came
[02:52.61]Out from behind the bar
[02:56.97]And in all of his life
[03:00.03]He was never that far
[03:02.96]And he did something else
[03:05.94]That he thought no one saw
[03:09.18]When he took all the cash
[03:12.09]From the register draw
[03:14.86]Then he followed the child
[03:17.90]To the girl cross the street
[03:21.61]And we watched from the
[03:23.22]Bar as they started to speak
[03:27.95]Then he called for a cab
[03:30.27]And he said J F K
[03:34.14]Put the girl in the cab
[03:36.59]And the cab drove away
[03:40.36]And we saw in his hand
[03:43.27]That the cash was all gone
[03:46.62]From the light that she had
[03:49.12]Wished upon
[03:54.79]If you want to arrange it
[03:58.94]This world you can change it
[04:01.95]If we could somehow make this
[04:05.78]Christmas thing last
[04:08.46]By helping a neighbor
[04:11.20]Or even a stranger
[04:15.34]And to know who needs help
[04:19.18]You need only just ask
[04:34.57]Then he looked for the child
[04:37.76]But the child wasn't there
[04:41.02]Just the wind and the snow
[04:43.75]Waltzing dreams through the air
[04:48.06]So he walked back inside
[04:50.81]Somehow different I think
[04:54.17]For the rest of the night
[04:57.13]No one paid for a drink
[05:01.00]And the cynics will say
[05:03.97]That some neighborhood kid
[05:07.45]Wandered in on some bums
[05:10.73]In the world where they hid
[05:14.26]But they weren't there
[05:17.50]So they couldn't see
[05:20.57]By an old neon star
[05:23.68]On that night Christmas Eve
[05:27.03]When the snow it was falling
[05:30.75]The neon was calling
[05:34.08]And in case you should wonder
[05:37.52]In case you should care
[05:41.88]Why we're on our own
[05:45.76]Never went home
[05:48.80]On that night of all nights
[05:53.78]We were already there