///*****/// [Intro - Acoustic Segment Begins] (Twelve-string acoustic, soft piano, the arena dropping to near silence) Everybody sit down. Get comfortable. This is the quiet part. [Verse 1] It was raining in the car park when we pulled up at four Twenty thousand people standing soaking at the door Nobody went home, nobody complained They just stood there in their denim getting hammered by the rain And I watched them from a window with a coffee going cold And I thought, my God, what have we been given here to hold There is nothing in a contract and there's nothing in a chart That explains what people do when something gets inside their heart [Pre-Chorus] So I'm gonna play this slow tonight And I want you all to hold your light [Chorus] Lighters in the rain Little flames against the dark Lighters in the rain Every one a beating heart I have seen the world go crooked and I've seen it come apart But I have never seen a thing as beautiful as this Lighters in the rain [Verse 2] There's a photograph from Hamburg in the winter, eighty-two Ten thousand tiny fires in a sea of navy blue I keep it in my guitar case and I look at it some nights When the road gets long and cruel and nothing in me feels right 'Cause a man can lose his family and a man can lose his mind A man can lose the meaning of the songs he leaves behind But you cannot lose the memory of a room that held you up When you had nothing left to give and gave it anyway [Pre-Chorus] So I'm gonna play this slow tonight And I want you all to hold your light [Chorus] Lighters in the rain Little flames against the dark Lighters in the rain Every one a beating heart I have seen the world go crooked and I've seen it come apart But I have never seen a thing as beautiful as this Lighters in the rain [Guitar Solo] (Clean electric over acoustic bed, aching, restrained, weeping bends) [Breakdown - Voice and Acoustic Only] Look at that Just look at that All the way to the back of the room Don't ever let anybody tell you that you're small [Bridge] When I'm gone and all the amplifiers finally go quiet And they sell the old guitars and pull the posters off the wall Don't remember me for anything I ever said in interviews Just remember that I stood here and I watched you burn for me [Final Chorus] Lighters in the rain Little flames against the dark Lighters in the rain Every one a beating heart I have seen the world go crooked and I've seen it come apart But I have never seen a thing as beautiful as this Lighters in the rain Lighters in the rain tonight [Verse 3] There's a couple down in front who came here on their wedding night Sent a letter to the office asking only for a light So this one's for you both, wherever in this hall you are May you always find each other in the dark [Chorus Reprise] Lighters in the rain Little flames against the dark Every one a beating heart [Outro] (Acoustic ringing out, crowd singing the melody softly, piano fading) Thank you. From all of us. Truly.
