[Verse 1]
Marble floor
Cold glass dome
Names get called
One by one
Clock hands drag
Whispers rise
Someone sighs
“Cast your vote”
[Chorus]
Three-fifths in favor
Tip the scale
Let it fall
Sixty voices saying “yes”
Forty holding the wall
Three-fifths in favor
Ink dries
Pages turn
The motion upon reconsideration
Agreed to
Lesson learned
[Verse 2]
Red lights
Green
Board lights up
One last glance
One last bluff
Old rules bend
New words stand
History
In a raised hand
[Chorus]
[Bridge]
All those maybes
Frozen to “aye” or “no”
All those speeches
Boiling down to this roll call vote
[low vocal register] Read it back slow
Yeas
Nays
Echo in stone
[Chorus]