Lyrics

Everybody Eats Tonight

Shhh…
Last wagon coming
Lanterns waking up
In A Very Unusual Town

Down the road the wagons rattle
Pumpkins thumping like old drums
Glowing corn and lantern apples
Come home shining through the dust

Bread boards steam beside the square
Cider runs in amber lines
Cheese wheels roll like harvest moons
Under strings of crooked lights

And every porch lights up at once
Like the town opened both its hands
For anybody still out walking
Trying to find their way back in

Nobody asks who brought the most
Nobody counts the years
They just make another place to sit
And set it down with care

Everybody eats tonight
Everybody eats tonight
If you made it through the weather
Pull your chair up to the light

Everybody eats tonight
Everybody eats tonight
In A Very Unusual Town
No one leaves outside

Hay-bale singers face the twilight
With their hats held to their hearts
Fiddles catch the last loose daylight
Pass it round in mason jars

Two old lovers share a blanket
By the truck with empty crates
Slow as people who have learned
Love gets better when it waits

Someone opens bottled August
Someone laughs and tears the bread
And for a minute every missing voice
Feels close enough to bless

At our age the world gets loud
But not around this fire
Here the night sits down beside you
Till your old bones feel lighter

Everybody eats tonight
Everybody eats tonight
Bring your silence, bring your memories
There is room at every side

An old farmer said, “The crop ain’t only
What you carried from the ground—
It’s who you walked back home beside
When the evening came around”

Everybody eats tonight
Everybody eats tonight
Pass the bread and pass the story
Keep the small things burning bright

Everybody eats tonight
Everybody eats tonight
Love puts one more plate out
Every time

Mmm… everybody eats tonight.