The Last Bell

[Soft Felt Piano Intro] The last classroom's full of the setting sun The blackboard still dusted with faint white chalk [Verse 1] I wipe the board clean for the very last time, so soft Old chalk dust rises like the dust of time The wooden desk where I carved my name still there Hidden beneath the new paint of those after me [Pre-Chorus] The teacher said, stand up one last time, go The whole class stood but no one wanted to step [Chorus] The last bell rang Ending a time we sat side by side The last bell rang That bell still rings within me [Verse 2] Now others sit in that classroom The blackboard wiped clean of what we wrote But I keep a grain of chalk on my hand And the last bell never quite stops [Chorus] The last bell rang Ending a time we sat side by side The last bell rang That bell still rings within me [Bridge] Some endings turn out to be beginnings When we step out carrying the whole room That bell doesn't call us back to study [Chorus] The last bell rang Ending a time we sat side by side The last bell rang That bell still rings within me [Outro] The classroom's empty now but the bell still rings I stand where I was, smiling at the months [Fade Out] [End]