///*****/// [Intro - Encore] (Triumphant fanfare, confetti cannons, crowd deafening) You brought us back! So let's do this properly! [Verse 1] Monday morning's coming for us all, make no mistake There's a foreman and a mortgage and a clock that doesn't break There's a boss who doesn't know your name and doesn't want to learn And a bank that owns the pieces of the money that you earn But it is not Monday morning and this is not that world This is a palace made of noise and everybody's an earl Put your crown on, put it on, don't be shy about it now Nobody's gonna check the paperwork on how [Pre-Chorus] For the next eleven minutes there is no one over us Not a president, not a priest, not a god, not a boss [Chorus] We are kings for one night only! Crowned in sweat and sound Kings for one night only! Nothing's gonna bring us down Tomorrow we go back to being nobody at all But tonight we own this hall! Kings for one night only! [Verse 2] There's a nurse in section twenty who has worked eleven days There's a man who fixes engines and a boy who's failing school There's a woman who has held a family up with both her hands And has not been thanked out loud since nineteen seventy-two Well I am thanking all of you and I am not being cute I have seen what people carry and I've seen what people do So take this hour and take this noise and take it with you home And remember that you wore a crown and it was your own [Pre-Chorus] For the next eleven minutes there is no one over us Not a president, not a priest, not a god, not a boss [Chorus] We are kings for one night only! Crowned in sweat and sound Kings for one night only! Nothing's gonna bring us down Tomorrow we go back to being nobody at all But tonight we own this hall! Kings for one night only! [Guitar Solo] (Regal, fanfare-like, harmonised thirds over marching snare) [Crowd Chant] Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey! (Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey!) Crowns up! (Whoa-oh-oh-oh!) [Breakdown] Everybody in this building, put your hands on your head Now make a crown. Do it. I don't care how you look. Twenty thousand kings and queens. Look at this. Look at this! [Bridge] They'll write about this night in half a paragraph or less Two stars, a snide remark, and a photograph, at best But no one in this building's gonna read a word of that Because we were here, and they were not, and that's a fact [Final Chorus] We are kings for one night only! Crowned in sweat and sound Kings for one night only! Nothing's gonna bring us down Tomorrow we go back to being nobody at all But tonight we own this hall! Kings for one night only! Kings for one night only tonight! [Verse 3] My grandfather worked cattle and he never saw the sea My father did his forty years and never once complained Neither of them ever got an hour like this in their lives So I'm taking it for all of us, for everybody's father For every pair of hands that built it and got no name [Outro] (Fanfare, confetti, crowd roaring, band bowing together) Your majesties. It's been an honour.
