///*****/// [Intro] (Anthemic ringing chords, crowd clapping in double time) Front row! I can see every one of you! [Verse 1] Crushed against the metal since the doors came open wide Six hours on your feet and you would not step aside Ribs against the railing and your boots against the floor Security's exhausted and you're screaming out for more There's a boy who lost his glasses and he doesn't even care There's a girl who lost her jacket and she's dancing in her hair And the whole front row is holding one another up right now Like a wall of total strangers who became a family somehow [Pre-Chorus] That's the strongest thing I've ever seen A hundred hands that will not let you fall [Chorus] Hearts on the barricade Beating in the light Hearts on the barricade Holding on with all their might You paid for this in bruises, you paid for this in sweat This is your night, don't you ever forget Hearts on the barricade tonight! [Verse 2] When somebody goes down there, twenty arms will lift them clear Pass them over to the front and get them water, get them air Nobody organised it and nobody made a rule It's the oldest human instinct in the loudest human room I've been reading in the papers how our people are a plague How we're violent and we're stupid and we're rotting and afraid Well I'm looking at ten thousand people caring for their own And I'd take this crowd over any parliament I've known [Pre-Chorus] That's the strongest thing I've ever seen A hundred hands that will not let you fall [Chorus] Hearts on the barricade Beating in the light Hearts on the barricade Holding on with all their might You paid for this in bruises, you paid for this in sweat This is your night, don't you ever forget Hearts on the barricade tonight! [Guitar Solo] (Triumphant, major key, twin harmonies soaring over pounding chords) [Crowd Chant] Whoa-oh-oh! Whoa-oh-oh-oh! Front to the back! (Whoa-oh-oh!) Side to side! (Whoa-oh-oh!) That's my army! [Breakdown] Everybody take the hand of the person beside you I mean it. Do it. Look at that. Look what you did. Now sing! [Bridge] They will tell you it was only a concert in the end That the lights came up, the amps went cold, and everybody went But I know what happened here and you know it just as well For two hours in this building there was nothing left to sell [Final Chorus] Hearts on the barricade Beating in the light Hearts on the barricade Holding on with all their might You paid for this in bruises, you paid for this in sweat This is your night, don't you ever forget Hearts on the barricade tonight! Hearts on the barricade! [Verse 3] Twenty years back I stood where you're standing now A stranger reached out and held me by the arm When the crush came through and almost took me down I never learned his name, I think about him still Everything worth having gets handed down By strangers in the dark who never wait around [Outro] (Chords ringing, crowd chanting on, band raising hands) Take care of each other out there. Always.
