🎵 “Five Minutes to Showtime” Intro (backstage chatter → stage swell) (muffled voices, footsteps, amp buzz) 🎙️ Lead (whisper): Five minutes… that’s what they said… 🎙️ Backing: You ready? 🎙️ Lead: …close enough. (drum fill → band kicks in) Verse 1 Backstage mirrors, crooked light, Tryin’ to look calm, don’t feel right, Strings still buzzin’, hands still cold— Funny how the nerves don’t get old. (Backing: ooh-ooh… here we go…) Someone’s laughin’, someone’s late, Someone’s tappin’ on the crate, But when we line up side by side— You can feel the shift inside… Pre-Chorus Count it in, don’t think too much, This is more than luck… (Backing: ahh… ahh… rising) Every wrong we played before— Is what we’re standin’ here for… Chorus (BIG, ANTHEMIC) 🎶 Five minutes to showtime—hearts in a line, (ooh-la-la!) Tryin’ to look cool while we’re checkin’ the time, If we get it right or crash in a blaze— (ahh-ahh!) We’ll still remember these days. Lights go up, hear the crowd— Lead: “Is this allowed?” Backing: “Play it loud!” If it all goes wrong or it all goes right— We’re alive… tonight! Verse 2 Curtain breathin’, stage in sight, Every shadow feels too bright, Drummer taps that nervous beat— Now it’s runnin’ through our feet. (Backing: ooh! don’t stop now…) First step out and there it is— Every doubt turns into this, Noise becomes a single sound— When the band locks in around… Pre-Chorus 2 Take a breath, let it go, This is all we know… (Backing: ahh… hold it…) Every late night, every try— All meets here tonight… Chorus (bigger, tambourine + crowd feel) 🎶 Five minutes to showtime—no turnin’ back, All those broken takes are on this track, From the first wrong chord to the final phrase— We’ve been buildin’ these days. Lights go up, hear the crowd— Backing: “Sing it loud!” Lead: “Sing it loud!” If it all goes wrong or it all goes right— We’re alive… tonight! Middle Eight (moment of stillness → surge) (drop to guitar + vocal) 🎙️ Lead: We were nothin’ but a noise… 🎙️ Backing (soft): Just a sound… 🎙️ Lead: Now we’re standin’ in the light— 🎙️ All: Don’t back down! (band explodes back in) Final Chorus (FULL SHOWSTOPPER) 🎶 Five minutes to showtime—this is the call, Every stumble brought us here after all, If the world’s watchin’ or nobody stays— We’ll still remember these days. Hands go up, voices loud— Lead: “Is this allowed?” Backing: “Play it loud!” If it all goes wrong or it all goes right— We were here… tonight! Outro (stage ring-out + breath) (band holds final chord, crowd swell) 🎙️ Lead (breathing, smiling): …that was the one. 🎙️ Backing: Again? 🎙️ Lead: Always. (guitar ring… fade)
