///*****/// [Intro - Tape Roll / Crowd Swell] (Twenty thousand voices in the dark) (A single bell, a rolling drum, a spark) [Verse 1] The tape is rolling, low and slow A siren crawling through the smoke below The ushers gave up on the aisles an hour ago Somebody's screaming from the second row I feel the floorboards breathing under me A cathedral built of amplifiers and electricity And every hand out there is reaching for the same Cheap and holy, gasoline and flame [Pre-Chorus] Can you feel it building, like a storm behind a door? Can you hear the countdown rolling on the floor? Three, two, one, we don't wait anymore [Chorus] House lights down! The night belongs to us now House lights down! Let the thunder hit the ground We came a thousand miles to lose our minds We came to burn the whole thing down House lights down! [Verse 2] I've seen the roadies bleeding on the truss I've seen the sunrise loading up the bus But nothing in this world has ever felt like this That first white beam, that first electric kiss Somewhere out there a kid just turned sixteen He'll remember this the way I still remember mine And when the first chord tears the ceiling from the sky He'll know exactly what it means to be alive [Pre-Chorus] Can you feel it climbing up your spine tonight? Can you taste the smoke and see the blinding light? Hold on tight, we're going up tonight [Chorus] House lights down! The night belongs to us now House lights down! Let the thunder hit the ground We came a thousand miles to lose our minds We came to burn the whole thing down House lights down! [Guitar Solo] (Wah-drenched, klaxon-loud, spiralling into the rafters) [Crowd Chant] Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey! (Twenty thousand voices calling back) Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey! [Bridge] Nobody here is anybody's son tonight No boss, no bill, no morning light Just one great heartbeat pounding through the wall Just one great animal that answers when we call Louder! [Final Chorus] House lights down! The night belongs to us now House lights down! Let the thunder hit the ground We waited all our lives for this one sound We came to burn the whole thing down House lights down! House lights down! [Verse 3] I have stood behind this curtain in a thousand different halls Hearing that same rolling thunder building up beyond the walls And it never gets familiar and it never once gets routine It's the loudest kind of welcome that a man has ever seen So whatever brought you here tonight, whatever you've been through Leave it in the parking lot tonight, this room will carry you [Chorus Reprise] House lights down! The night belongs to us now House lights down! Let the thunder hit the ground Sing it back to me! [Outro] (Feedback howling, cymbals crashing, crowd roaring) Curitiba, London, Cleveland, everywhere Sing it back to me House lights down!
