///*****/// [Intro - Encore Break] (Total darkness, feet stomping, crowd chanting for four minutes) (A single spotlight finds an empty microphone stand) (Then one clean guitar note) [Verse 1] You can hear them from the corridor, you can feel it through the wall Twenty thousand people who refuse to leave the hall The crew is standing frozen with the towels in their hands And the promoter's on the walkie saying, get them back on stand There's a rule about the curfew and a fine we'll have to pay There's a truck that leaves at midnight and a plane at break of day And there's a sound out there right now that I have never learned to leave It's the sound of being wanted and I'm not ready to believe [Pre-Chorus] So tell the man up in the lighting booth To hold on just a little longer [Chorus] Don't turn the lights on yet Not while they're still singing out there in the dark Don't turn the lights on yet Not while there's a spark The night is nearly over and I know that it must end But don't turn the lights on yet, my friend Don't turn the lights on yet [Verse 2] I've played this game for twenty years and here's the honest truth The encore isn't planned, they only tell you that it is It's a bargain made in real time in the darkness of a hall Between a band that's got no business standing up at all And a crowd who won't accept it, who will stomp until the floor Comes up out of the concrete and demands a little more So we walk back out there shaking with our hearts up in our throats And we give them everything that we were holding in reserve [Pre-Chorus] So tell the man up in the lighting booth To hold on just a little longer [Chorus] Don't turn the lights on yet Not while they're still singing out there in the dark Don't turn the lights on yet Not while there's a spark The night is nearly over and I know that it must end But don't turn the lights on yet, my friend Don't turn the lights on yet [Guitar Solo] (Building from a single clean note into the full band explosion) [Breakdown - Crowd Only] (Twenty thousand people stomping in perfect time) Boom-boom-clap. Boom-boom-clap. Hear that? That's them. That's not us. Alright. Alright! We're coming back! [Bridge] There will come a night, and it is closer than you think When we will walk off this stage and nobody will stomp And I have made my peace with that, I've made it long ago But God, please, not tonight, not this one, not just yet [Final Chorus] Don't turn the lights on yet Not while they're still singing out there in the dark Don't turn the lights on yet Not while there's a spark The night is nearly over and I know that it must end But don't turn the lights on yet, my friend Don't turn the lights on yet tonight [Verse 3] The guitarist's hands are bleeding and he's grinning And the four of us are standing in a corridor of grey And nobody says anything, there's nothing left to say There's just that sound, and a door, and a stage [Outro] (Full band crashing in, crowd erupting) CURITIBA! ARE YOU STILL AWAKE?
