Trolley Barn: Rails to Revelry

Lyrics

[Intro]
Feel that?
Right through the floorboards.
963 Edgewood Avenue.
Yeah, the party's right here.
[Verse 1]
Champagne spills where the grease pit was.
High heels click on a floor that knew steel wheels.
Back in 1889, Joel Hurt built this place for motion.
The clang of the bell, the smell of ozone and hot metal.
First electric pulse through the city's veins.
Tonight, the only pulse is this beat in our chests.
[Chorus]
From rails to revelry, brick by brick.
From the trolley's hum to the DJ's kick.
This old barn doesn't sleep anymore.
It holds our laughter, it holds our roar.
The ghosts of the tracks are dancing with us now.
Yeah, the ghosts of the tracks are dancing with us now.
[Verse 2]
Then the silence came. Forty-seven, the wires went cold.
Just dust motes dancing in the arched window light.
They said, "Tear it down. Make it a gas station."
But in seventy-four, a new deal was struck.
A single dollar bill, passed hand to hand.
This whole neighborhood said, "We make our stand."
[Chorus]
From rails to revelry, brick by brick.
From the trolley's hum to the DJ's kick.
This old barn doesn't sleep anymore.
It holds our laughter, it holds our roar.
The ghosts of the tracks are dancing with us now.
Yeah, the ghosts of the tracks are dancing with us now.
[Bridge]
Can you imagine it? Pumping gas right here?
This history paved over for convenience and fear?
No, the Inman Park spirit, it bought this place back.
From ruin, from rust, from the edge of the track.
One single dollar.
For a million memories yet to be made.
[Outro]
So raise your glass high!
Let the bass drum vibrate through the walls.
Feel the history under your feet.
From rails... to revelry!