Name: Where were you when the light went out?
Duration: P00H02M45S
Description: People tend to get impatient with me telling jokes on stage... So I figured I'd just write them into a song.

Where were you when the light went out?

from The Ghosts of Last Night by Alex Elbery

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People tend to get impatient with me telling jokes on stage... So I figured I'd just write them into a song.

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Two one way street signs pointing at each other
A man walks into a bar
an englishman and an irishman
and we all go drunk driving in my car.

What's the difference between?
Oh, the hands on your watch tick backwards, huh?
How many light globes does it take to screw me?
And to see you in the dark.

where were you when the lights went out?

Knock knock, who's there?
White van anxiety.
Don't you be a stranger now
to me and my girl calliope

The Boss says 'I just wanna see you smile'
and the Joker says the same
two sets of big bouncing balls
playing the exact same game

so where were they when the lights went out?

Am I a hero or a villain?
How am I supposed to know?
All I know is I'm killing it now
every which way that I go.

All I know is I make angels
when I fall in the snow
though we don't get much snow 'round here
in the valley below.

We only get sunshine
so bright that it stings
a few runaway fires
and the songs that they sing

but where was I when the fire went out?

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from The Ghosts of Last Night, released March 17, 2013

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