09 - History is Bunk?

[Intro | piano + soft pad, intimate] [Verse 1 | low energy, vocal forward] They told us the past was a weight on our backs burn all the photographs, cover the tracks No yesterday, only the shining ahead — forget where you came from, forget what they said [Pre-Chorus | drums + claps build] But my grandmother's voice is a song I still keep, and it wakes me up gently right out of the sleep [Chorus | huge, gang 'whoa-oh', arena lift] History is bunk? (is it though) History is bunk? (I don't know) 'cause everything I am is everything they were and I won't let it blur — no, history is bunk? — no [Verse 2 | fuller, guitar enters] The clever ones laughing, 'the old world is dead, we printed a new one, just look straight ahead' But you can't build a tower on a hole in the ground, and a people with no memory is a people unbound [Pre-Chorus] But my grandmother's voice is a song I still keep, and it wakes me up gently right out of the sleep [Chorus] History is bunk? (is it though) History is bunk? (I don't know) 'cause everything I am is everything they were and I won't let it blur — no, history is bunk? — no [Bridge | breakdown, then biggest lift] So tell me the stories, the ones in the book, give me a reason to go back and look 'cause a man with no past is a leaf in the wind — and I want to remember where I've been [Chorus | final, full crowd] History is bunk? (is it though) History is bunk? (I don't know) everything I am is everything they were — no, history is bunk? — no [Outro | crowd 'whoa-oh' + piano, fade]