[Intro – Crowd claps, stomps, synth riff, someone laughing, “Yeah, that’s us!”] We’re the wrong kind of loud in the right kind of way, Painting our names in mistakes and in rain, If normal is safety, we’re breaking the locks— Out here in the margins, we’re running this block. [Verse 1 – Gritty guitar, dancey drums, bouncy bassline] Polaroid scars and a split lip grin, Found family built from the mess I was in, All my best friends are disasters in boots, Still dancing in hallways the cool kids don’t use. We wear our weird like a badge or a bruise, Rock the thrift store tux and the glitter tattoos, Don’t need your invite, don’t want your applause, We throw our own party, write our own laws. Out on the curb with the misfit parade, Trading dead batteries for lemonades, Laughing at nothing, making it mean more— We turn empty pockets into dance floors. [Pre-Chorus – Gang vocals, quick claps, energy rising] Hey! You with the too-bright hair, You with the homemade crown— Don’t let them make you small, Get loud, get weird, get down. [Chorus – Explodes, sing/shout, fist-in-the-air] Weirdos like us, Raise your freak flags higher! Can’t kill our buzz, We set the world on fire. If you never fit in, Come get in the van— No map, no rules, Just a gang of mad friends. Yeah, weirdos like us, We were never meant to blend, We make chaos look easy, We make strange look like zen. If you ever felt lonely, If you ever felt strange, Welcome home, It’s your turn to rearrange. [Verse 2 – Faster, more urgent, handclaps, shoutbacks] Superglue hearts and ripped-up jeans, Unspooled cassette and bad tattoos, Stole our philosophies from memes and zines, Built our temples from empty Red Bull cans. Laughed in the rain at a funeral march, Crash the wedding, eat cake, steal the hearts, Chasing the feeling of never enough, Told every mistake “I still call that love.” We make wishes on bus stops, Spell words wrong on purpose, Find beauty in chaos, Find gods in the circus. Every rejection just added a spark, Now we light up the night with the glow of our dark. [Pre-Chorus – Layered vocals, echo, call and response] Hey! You with the shaky hands, You with the crooked smile— You’re the only kind of perfect I’ve seen in a while. [Chorus – Even bigger, wall of sound, stomps, shouts] Weirdos like us, Raise your freak flags higher! Can’t kill our buzz, We set the world on fire. If you never fit in, Come get in the van— No map, no rules, Just a gang of mad friends. Yeah, weirdos like us, We were never meant to blend, We make chaos look easy, We make strange look like zen. If you ever felt lonely, If you ever felt strange, Welcome home, It’s your turn to rearrange. [Bridge – Stripped back, music drops, voices close and honest, almost spoken] Here’s to the quiet kids dreaming in class, To the loud ones who never could mask, To the kids in the corner, the last picked for teams, To the ones who live loud in impossible dreams. Here’s to every night you spent thinking you’re wrong, To the glitter in tears and the power in songs. We are broken and mended, chaotic and true— The world didn’t want us, so we made it new. [Final Chorus – Everyone in, maximum volume, layers of “hey!” and “yeah!”] Weirdos like us, Raise your freak flags higher! Can’t kill our buzz, We set the world on fire. If you never fit in, Come get in the van— No map, no rules, Just a gang of mad friends. Weirdos like us, We rewrite the ending, Strange and unbroken, Beautifully bending. If you ever felt nowhere, If you ever felt lost— Open your door, We’re already on your block. [Outro – Fade out, laughing, car horn, voices calling “Come on, let’s go!”] Weirdos like us— The party never ends.
