///*****/// [Intro - Final Song] (Slow, warm, clean guitar and organ, the crowd hushed and exhausted) Alright. This really is the last one. Thank you for tonight. [Verse 1] The floor is full of paper cups and one abandoned shoe There's a boy asleep on somebody's shoulder in row two The air is thick as August and the walls are running wet And nobody in this building wants to say goodnight just yet I have played nine hundred cities and I've slept in half of them I have burned through every friendship and I've mended most again But I have never found a single thing in all those years and miles That comes close to what just happened in this room for two hours [Pre-Chorus] So let me say it while the amplifiers hum Before the ordinary world comes [Chorus] Goodnight, sweet chaos Goodnight, beautiful noise Goodnight to the strangers who became my only choice Take it with you out into the cold and to your car And remember what you were tonight, remember what we are Goodnight, sweet chaos [Verse 2] In the morning there'll be traffic and a headline and a bill And the memory of this will start to loosen and go still So hold it hard for one more hour, hold it in your chest Don't let anybody tell you that it was anything less There are people who will never understand what happened here They'll say it was a concert and a lot of noise and beer Let them think it. Let them have it. We know what it was. It was the last free thing on earth and it belonged to us [Pre-Chorus] So let me say it while the amplifiers hum Before the ordinary world comes [Chorus] Goodnight, sweet chaos Goodnight, beautiful noise Goodnight to the strangers who became my only choice Take it with you out into the cold and to your car And remember what you were tonight, remember what we are Goodnight, sweet chaos [Guitar Solo] (Warm, unhurried, deeply melodic, the last great solo of the night) [Breakdown - Band Introductions] On the drums, the thunder himself! On the bass, the man who holds the world up! On lead guitar, my brother for thirty years! And you. All of you. The best band we ever had. [Bridge] The lights are coming up now and I can see your faces Every single one of you, and I will not forget Not the ones down at the barricade, not the ones up in the rafters Twenty thousand voices, and I heard every one [Final Chorus] Goodnight, sweet chaos Goodnight, beautiful noise Goodnight to the strangers who became my only choice Take it with you out into the cold and to your car And remember what you were tonight, remember what we are Goodnight, sweet chaos Goodnight, sweet chaos [Verse 3] Somebody asked me yesterday how long we'd keep this up But the truth is I'll do this until my body says I can't And then I'll come and stand out there with all of you instead It was never really about the standing on a stage It was always the room, it was always the sound [Outro] (Final chord ringing out, house lights rising, crowd applauding and singing on) Be good to each other. Get home safe. Goodnight!
