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Ten Feet Off the Ground

///*****/// [Intro - Main Set Closer] (Huge fanfare chords, pyrotechnic booms, crowd at maximum volume) This is the last one! Make it count! [Verse 1] I don't remember climbing up, I don't remember how I only know my boots aren't touching anything right now There's a roaring in my skull that isn't blood and isn't sound It's about ten thousand voices lifting me clean off the ground Somebody up in the lighting rig is laughing at the sky Somebody in the seventh row has stopped pretending not to cry And every single molecule inside this building's moving And nobody in the world tonight can tell us what we're doing [Pre-Chorus] This is the part I try to hold The part I'll tell them when I'm old [Chorus] Ten feet off the ground! Nothing underneath me but the sound Ten feet off the ground! Every heart in here is coming down If I never get another night, if this is all I found I was ten feet off the ground! [Verse 2] They can have the money and they can have the magazines They can have the interviews and everything between Just give me this, the moment right before the final chord When nobody's a stranger and nobody's ignored There's a physicist somewhere who could tell me it's not true That a room can lift a body just by wanting it to But he wasn't here on Friday and he never felt this crowd And I am floating like a cathedral over ground [Pre-Chorus] This is the part I try to hold The part I'll tell them when I'm old [Chorus] Ten feet off the ground! Nothing underneath me but the sound Ten feet off the ground! Every heart in here is coming down If I never get another night, if this is all I found I was ten feet off the ground! [Guitar Solo] (Ecstatic, soaring, everything at once, twin harmonies and dive bombs) [Crowd Chant] Whoa-oh-oh-oh-oh! (Whoa-oh-oh-oh-oh!) Higher! (WHOA-OH-OH-OH-OH!) [Breakdown] Everything stops One drum One voice Now everybody! [Bridge] When they put me in the ground, don't say he was a rock star Don't say he sold some records, don't say he had a car Just say that for a while, on certain nights, in certain rooms He got a few thousand people ten feet off the ground [Final Chorus] Ten feet off the ground! Nothing underneath me but the sound Ten feet off the ground! Every heart in here is coming down If I never get another night, if this is all I found I was ten feet off the ground! Ten feet off the ground tonight! [Verse 3] I can see the whole thing from up here, the entire human race Every kind of person that this country ever made Bricklayers and bankers and a nun in the eleventh row Somebody's grandmother with earplugs and a glow And not a single one of them is thinking about a thing Except this chord, this second, and the sound we all bring [Chorus Reprise] Ten feet off the ground! Nothing underneath me but the sound [Outro] (Massive final unison hit, pyro, lights blackout, crowd screaming in darkness) Goodnight! GOODNIGHT!