///*****/// [Intro] (Enormous slow anthemic chords, whole crowd singing before a word is sung) Everybody! You know what to do! [Verse 1] Here's to the ones who bought the ticket when they couldn't afford the rent Here's to the ones who drove nine hours in a car with a broken vent Here's to the girl who sewed the patches on the back of her old coat Here's to the boy who plays air guitar alone inside his room Here's to the crew who built this cathedral up at seven in the morning And who'll take it down again at three and drive to Rome Here's to the sound man, here's to the driver, here's to the woman on the door Here's to every single soul who made tonight occur [Pre-Chorus] Raise it up, raise it high This is the toast of my whole life [Chorus] Long live the loud! Long live the ones who never learned to whisper Long live the loud! Long live the beautiful and bitter May the amplifiers never cool, may the crowd never thin Long live the loud, and long live all of them Long live the loud! [Verse 2] Here's to the bands that never made it out of the garage Here's to the singers in the bars still playing to nobody at all Here's to the ones we lost too young who never got to see How much of what they started is still standing here with me And here's to every one of you who'll go to work on Monday Carrying a secret that your colleagues will not guess That last night you were nine feet tall and singing in the thunder And they will never, ever know how much of you is left [Pre-Chorus] Raise it up, raise it high This is the toast of my whole life [Chorus] Long live the loud! Long live the ones who never learned to whisper Long live the loud! Long live the beautiful and bitter May the amplifiers never cool, may the crowd never thin Long live the loud, and long live all of them Long live the loud! [Guitar Solo] (Majestic, hymn-like, slow soaring bends and harmonised twin leads) [Crowd Singalong] Long live the loud! (LONG LIVE THE LOUD!) Long live the loud! (LONG LIVE THE LOUD!) Beautiful! [Breakdown] Arms around the person next to you Sway with me Whole building, side to side That's it. That's the whole point of everything. [Bridge] Some of you were not born when we made our first record Some of you were there in the back of a pub in seventy-four And tonight you're standing next to one another singing the same line And that is the closest thing to eternity I've ever found [Final Chorus] Long live the loud! Long live the ones who never learned to whisper Long live the loud! Long live the beautiful and bitter May the amplifiers never cool, may the crowd never thin Long live the loud, and long live all of them Long live the loud! Long live the loud tonight! [Verse 3] Here's to the ones who taught us and the ones who came before Every one of them is standing in this room somehow Here's to whoever's next, somewhere in the dark With a cheap guitar and a wild unreasonable heart [Outro] (Crowd singing alone, band standing back, arms raised) That's you. That's all you.
