[Amp hum] [Four-string electric guitar] [One crooked little riff] [Man] Wasn't six strings Wasn't even five Somebody handed me four And somehow four came alive Cheap little electric Half broken at the neck I didn't know what I was doing But I wasn't done yet [Universe, distant] Let me show you something [Man] Who's that? [Universe] Keep playing [Man] I hit a bad note [Universe] Play another [Man] That one was worse [Universe] You're getting warmer [Man laughs] [Boot stomp] I never had a word for it Never made a sacred vow Just couldn't understand Why I should stop Because I couldn't do it now So I played until my fingers Knew something I did not Four strings One kid And I never would stop [Chorus] Never would stop Never would stop Four strings ringing With everything I got Miss one Find one Learn another way Never would stop So tomorrow Knew my name [Second acoustic enters] [Universe] Let me show you something [Man] Show me [Universe] Make a mistake [Man] Made plenty [Universe] What did you do? [Man] Did it again [Universe] No What did you do? [Man] Learned something [Universe] There you go [Morin khuur answers] [Man] I grew up Still doing it Didn't know there was a name Every time I lost a round I stayed inside the game Built it wrong I built again Read another page Found out every scar I earned Could teach another age And somewhere all those little things Started talking to the rest One thing taught another thing And better taught me best Knowledge leaned on knowledge Like stones beneath a wall Funny how the things you stack Don't stay little Long at all [Chorus] Never would stop Never would stop One thing growing From the last thing that I got Miss one Find one Learn another way Never would stop So tomorrow Knew my name [Bass enters] BUM-ba BUM-ba [Audience begins stomping] [Man] Then something started happening [Universe] You noticed? [Man] Yeah The farther that I walked The farther I could see The more I learned The more the world Started making sense to me A lesson fed a lesson A question split in two Every answer made me better At deciding what was true And the strangest part The farther that I went The things I learned stopped adding They started multiplying [Universe] Now you see it [Man] Compounding [Universe] Keep going [Instrumental conversation] [Four-string riff] [Acoustic answers] [Bass repeats it] [Morin khuur transforms it] [Floor drums enter] [Bridge] [Man] So tell me When did I stop failing? [Universe] You didn't [Man] What? [Universe] You failed all the time [Man] Well that's encouraging [Universe] You just stopped Calling it the end [Silence] [Man] Say that again [Universe] The mistake wasn't the ending Stopping would've been [Drum hit] [Man] So every wrong turn— [Universe] Taught you something [Man] Every broken plan— [Universe] Built another [Man] Every time I fell— [Universe] You stayed curious [Man] Every time I couldn't— [Universe] You said Not yet [Full band erupts] [Final chorus] [Both] Never would stop Never would stop Four strings became Everything he got Miss one Find one Learn another way Never would stop So tomorrow Knew his name [Man] Never would stop [Universe] So I showed you more [Man] Never would stop [Universe] So you found another door [Man] Never would stop [Universe] And the little became a lot [Man] Not because I never failed [Universe] Because failure Never made you stop [Music drops back to original four-string guitar] [Man] You know what's funny? [Universe] What? [Man] The person who gave me this thing Would probably look at all this now And say You kinda owe me [Audience laughs] [Universe] They're not wrong [Man laughs] [Four-string riff] [Universe] You ready? [Man] For what? [Universe] Let me show you something [Man] Again? [Universe] Again [One boot stomp] [End]
