[Intro] [[crowd hum, distant gym reverb]] hey move over a little there’s still your space here [Verse 1] third row by the window your jacket’s still hanging there nobody took it down yet guess nobody wants to homeroom bell goes off someone laughs too loud again for one second, swear to god it sounded just like you half the class keeps talking like nothing really happened nobody’s even looking at the board anymore [Pre-Chorus] and everybody said time fixes it slowly but your name hits different when attendance gets lonely [Chorus] so sing loud even if the notes come out wrecked hands up like you’re still yelling next to us whole room shaking old lights buzzing above we miss you yeah, that’s the ugly truth of it tonight your voice is somewhere in the chorus tonight we leave the mic on for you [Post-Chorus Chant] hey, hey, hey don’t fade out hey, hey, hey stay around [Verse 2] cafeteria noise flat cola, nothing left but sugar somebody wrote your nickname deep into the bathroom paint there’s a photo from sports day folded in somebody’s phone case your number’s still pinned in the group chat and nobody says heaven we just point up at nothing cause saying it out loud still kinda does something [Pre-Chorus] we tried acting normal for like a month or two but silence gets brutal when it circles back to you [Chorus] so sing loud even if our throats give out stand close til the whole damn gym rings out echoes bouncing sneakers dragging slow we miss you more than anybody knows tonight your voice is somewhere in the chorus tonight we leave the mic on for you [Bridge] [[broken vocal, near-spoken]] one more chair stacked in the back one more name nobody can answer to one more friday night walking home uneven [[distant crowd chant building]] if you can hear this somehow don’t laugh at us too hard we’re trying we’re really trying [Final Chorus] sing loud til the cheap speakers blow apart lights flash everybody crying in the dark whole room swaying arms over shoulders again for a minute it almost feels like you walked in tonight your voice is buried in the chorus tonight we leave the mic on we leave the mic on we leave the mic on for you
