///*****/// [Intro - Bass Feature] (Solo bass, chorus pedal and flanger, melodic and enormous) (Slow build, crowd hushing, then a single low note shaking the floor) [Verse 1] He stands in the shadow at the side of the stage Four thick strings and a hundred quiet days No spotlight follows him, he doesn't want it to He's the ground beneath the fire, he's the thing that holds it true You never hear him coming but you feel him when he's there Like weather in your ribcage, like a hand upon a prayer He's the reason that the chorus makes you want to close your eyes He's the floor that doesn't move when everything else flies [Pre-Chorus] The high notes get the glory, the low notes get the soul One of them is decoration, one of them is home [Chorus] This is a low end prayer Down where the darkness lives This is a low end prayer For everything the quiet ones give Feel it move the water in your glass Feel it move the room, feel it move the past Low end prayer tonight [Bass Solo] (Melodic and singing, chorused and vast, slap breakdown, then a slow fretless-style glide) (Crowd cheering every phrase, band answering with soft accents) [Verse 2] I've watched him tune in silence while the whole world screamed outside I've watched him fix a broken song with one deliberate slide He turned down a record deal in nineteen seventy-two Because the money wanted flash and he only wanted true There's a hundred better players and he'd be the first to say But there's nobody alive who makes a band feel this way So when the wall of noise comes down and everything is bare Listen for the one deep note that's holding up the air [Pre-Chorus] The high notes get the glory, the low notes get the soul One of them is decoration, one of them is home [Chorus] This is a low end prayer Down where the darkness lives This is a low end prayer For everything the quiet ones give Feel it move the water in your glass Feel it move the room, feel it move the past Low end prayer tonight [Guitar Solo] (Restrained, lyrical, weaving above the bass instead of over it) [Bridge] Every cathedral needs a stone that nobody will see Every fire needs a floor or it burns down into the sea So put your hands together for the man who never asks For the deepest sound in here, for the man behind the mask [Final Chorus] This is a low end prayer Down where the darkness lives This is a low end prayer For everything the quiet ones give Feel it move the water in your glass Feel it move the room, feel it move the past Low end prayer, low end prayer tonight [Verse 3] There's a photograph from Cologne where you can barely see his face Just a shape against the backline in the corner of the frame That's exactly how he wants it The whole foundation of a building that has somebody else's name I asked him once if it got old, not getting any light He said, the bass is what they feel, the floor is what is real [Outro] (One enormous sustained low note, chorused and swelling, crowd roaring) That's the sound of the ground.
