///*****/// [Intro] (Open ringing chords, tambourine, crowd already clapping) I'm gonna need every single one of you for this one! [Verse 1] I don't need a microphone if you're all standing here I don't need a monitor, I've got twelve thousand in my ear There's a language that we made up somewhere back in seventy-six Three notes and a heartbeat and a stupid little trick And it works in every country and it works in every tongue It don't care what you believe in, don't care where you're from You just open up your throat and let the whole thing come apart And a stranger becomes family in about four bars [Pre-Chorus] So take a breath and hold it, feel it climbing in your chest Now let it go and give me all the rest [Chorus] Sing it back to me! (Whoa-oh-oh, whoa-oh-oh-oh) Sing it back to me! (Whoa-oh-oh, whoa-oh-oh-oh) Louder than the amplifiers, louder than the sea Twenty thousand voices, sing it back to me! [Verse 2] There's a man in section forty who has not sung since he was young There's a widow in the balcony who came here for her son There's a kid who came alone tonight 'cause nobody would come And in about ten seconds they'll be singing as one That's the thing they never tell you when they talk about the noise It was never about volume, it was always about joy You can call it entertainment, you can call it what you please I have seen it heal a broken man in three and a half degrees [Pre-Chorus] So take a breath and hold it, feel it climbing in your chest Now let it go and give me all the rest [Chorus] Sing it back to me! (Whoa-oh-oh, whoa-oh-oh-oh) Sing it back to me! (Whoa-oh-oh, whoa-oh-oh-oh) Louder than the amplifiers, louder than the sea Twenty thousand voices, sing it back to me! [Call and Response Section] Left side! (Whoa-oh-oh!) Right side! (Whoa-oh-oh!) Everybody in the balcony! (Whoa-oh-oh!) Now all together! (WHOA-OH-OH-OH!) [Guitar Solo] (Joyful, major key, bouncing melodic phrases the crowd can hum) [Breakdown - Band Silent] (Only the audience singing, four bars, then eight, then sixteen) (The singer steps back from the microphone and simply listens) Don't stop. Please don't stop. [Bridge] I have made a lot of money and I've lost a lot of years I've had every kind of nothing and I've swallowed every fear But there is no drug, no money and no woman on this earth Like ten thousand people singing something that you wrote [Final Chorus] Sing it back to me! (Whoa-oh-oh, whoa-oh-oh-oh) Sing it back to me! (Whoa-oh-oh, whoa-oh-oh-oh) Louder than the amplifiers, louder than the sea Twenty thousand voices, sing it back to me! [Verse 3] I have sung this in a language I could not pronounce at all In a stadium in Tokyo with fifty thousand souls And I stood there like a fool with tears I could not stop There is nothing on this earth that brings a stranger any closer Than a chorus and a room and half a million watts of sound [Outro] (Crowd carrying the melody alone as the band walks the stage) I'll never get over that. Never.
