[Verse 1: Big-lunged orchestral-pop male lead, big-lunged, steady and strong] Midnight in the valley and the ice coming sideways Every wire on the ridge snapping like a guitar string Grid goes dark on the whole county at once Just one tower on the hill still screaming in the wind Brake is gone and the blades are a blur Shaking the ground like a train in the dirt Foreman on the radio says nobody goes And I'm already clipping in, the only rookie that knows [Pre-Chorus: Big-lunged orchestral-pop male lead, climbing] Three hundred feet of ladder in the dark One headlamp and a pounding heart [Chorus: Big-lunged orchestral-pop male lead, full chest, belted] Don't look down, there's a whole town waiting Steel in my grip and the tower shaking Rung after rung through the howling night Don't look down, just climb to the light [Verse 2: Big-lunged orchestral-pop male lead, big-lunged, bigger] Halfway up and the whole shaft sways Bolts in the wall singing every which way Ice on the rungs and my gloves going numb Counting out loud like a kid on a drum Radio crackles, a voice from the ground Says the clinic on Main lost the backup they found Forty people down there in the cold and the black I got one way up and there is no way back [Chorus: Big-lunged orchestral-pop male lead, full chest, belted] Don't look down, there's a whole town waiting Steel in my grip and the tower shaking Rung after rung through the howling night Don't look down, just climb to the light [Build: Big-lunged orchestral-pop male lead, step-by-step build, a new layer of strings and drums on every rung] One rung, cellos Two rungs, violins Three rungs, the drums come marching in Four rungs, the whole sky roaring Five, I throw the hatch and the storm comes pouring [Verse 3: Big-lunged orchestral-pop male lead, big-lunged, huge and loud] Out on the nacelle with the wind in my teeth Find the old crank in the box underneath Turn the blades slow, put their edge in the gale Tower stops shaking, it is steady as a nail Generator hums and the meter climbs green Only one turning on the whole ridge line Then I look down, yeah, I finally do One street, two streets, the town shining through [Final Chorus: Big-lunged orchestral-pop male lead, full chest, belted, full orchestra] Don't look down, there's a whole town waiting Steel in my grip and the tower shaking Rung after rung through the howling night Don't look down, just climb to the light [Outro: Big-lunged orchestral-pop male lead, big-lunged, strings swell and ring out] Whole town waiting Whole town shining Look down now [End]