Eddie's Attic: The Stage That Launched Indigo Girls

Lyrics

So I'm walking around Decatur Square, just looking for a beer.
Found this steep set of stairs next to a pizza place.
Said "Eddie's Attic" on a little wooden sign.
Didn't look like much, but I had the time.

Upstairs it's not an attic, just a long, low room.
Brick walls, dark wood, a feeling of history.
I grab a seat, order a local brew.
The bartender leans in, says, "Welcome, glad to see you.
But just so you know, when the music starts... we listen."
Yeah, he told me that's the rule.

'Cause these four brick walls have heard it all.
Heard Amy and Emily's harmony calls.
Heard the ones who got famous and the ones who just tried.
With nothing but a guitar and a story inside.
Yeah, legends are born when the whole room is quiet.
Up here in Eddie's Attic.

He told me about a night, September twelfth, two-thousand-and-one.
The world outside was broken, the healing hadn't begun.
They hung blankets on the windows to make the room dark.
And a kid named John Mayer left his permanent mark.
Recorded "Any Given Thursday," right there on that stage.
Called it the best room in America. Turned a new page.

And these four brick walls, they heard it all.
Heard Amy and Emily's harmony calls.
Heard the ones who got famous and the ones who just tried.
With nothing but a guitar and a story inside.
Yeah, legends are born when the whole room is quiet.
Up here in Eddie's Attic.

Then he laughs and says, "That ain't even the half.
April, 2009, this one's gonna make you laugh.
A teenager named Bieber, before the posters and the screams.
Just him and a six-string, living out his dreams."
It was Eddie Owen's vision, you see.
It's not the genre, it's the honesty.
It's the heartbeat of the song.

And now the lights are dimming, the talking fades away.
Some new kid's walking up there, got something to say.
My beer is getting warm, but I don't even care.
I'm listening now.
We're all listening here.