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Who turned the light on?

from .​.​.​And So It Goes by the Big Friendly Corporation

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Initially, Ryan and Melissa wanted to write a concept album that would be filmed at a later date. The concept didn't follow through, but the remnants of it remain in this song about a ghost haunting an office building.

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This town was a busy place
With more jobs than office space
And right off of Fourth and Main
A nationwide finance chain
The logo still gleams so bright
The jobless see it at night
There's 36 empty floors
And padlocks and chains on the doors

A small-minded greedy man
With small-minded greedy plans
gave everyone there the sack
Don't bother coming back
Computers do all you do
Much longer and faster, too
It's kept dark and colder than
People could ever stand

Who turned the light on?
Was it someone we had wronged?
Who turned the light on?
Was it someone dead and gone?

People once worked in here
But not since the fiscal year
The boss was a business shark
The building is always dark
Computers work night and day
They're all work and never play
But still sometimes late at night
There will be a flicker of light

Who turned the light on?
Was it someone we had wronged?
Who turned the light on?
Was it someone dead and gone?

A skeleton crew works there
To keep things in good repair
With skeleton keys for doors
On all the abandoned floors
But something is haunting us
Condemning and taunting us
We keep all the lights off
We keep all the lights off

Who turned the light on?
Was it someone we had wronged?
Who turned the light on? Was it someone dead and gone?

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from .​.​.​And So It Goes, released January 8, 2010
Music and lyrics by Melissa & Ryan Marth

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