About the song
The answer song to WHEN THE CROWD GOES HOME - same room, other side of the door. Piano, one voice, and a crack left in on purpose.
Ten thousand hands set me down like a coat.
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TAKE ME lyrics
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Intro
House lights up. Ten thousand backs. One door, one click, and the loud walks out.
Verse 1
Two hours ago I raised one hand and ten thousand rose. Now a kid with a broom shoves confetti at my toes. My face on a shirt, folded flat in the can by the door. My name on a wristband, cut, and kicked across the floor. The last road case rolls out. The dock lock clicks. The bus pulls out. Two red lights. Then it's bricks. The ring in my ears is the last one to leave. It hums like the hall, and I hang on its sleeve.
Chorus
When the crowd goes home, they take me. Ten thousand hands set me down like a coat. Then the house lights come up on the loud and it goes quiet in my throat. When the crowd goes home, they take me by the fistful, out the door. Every phone in the pit walks off with a piece, and I go home with what's left of the roar.
Verse 2
Back seat. Dark glass. One face in it, mine. Room key won't take. Third try. Floor nine. Phone's got the whole show looped, thirty clips, sound off, arms up, ten thousand moving lips. Face down on the sheets, the phone, then me. The ring in my ears runs out at three. One lamp by the bed. One coat on a chair. I raise one hand in the dark. Nothing rises but air.
Chorus
When the crowd goes home, they take me. Ten thousand hands set me down like a coat. Then the house lights come up on the loud and it goes quiet in my throat. When the crowd goes home, they take me by the fistful, out the door. Every phone in the pit walks off with a piece, and I go home with what's left of the roar.
Bridge
Maybe the roar was never mine. Maybe I only stood where it hit. I taught ten thousand mouths to say "one more," and here I am, three a.m., saying it. Tomorrow's room says sold out. Good. Same hand up. Same door. I'll go stand where it hits.
Chorus
When the crowd goes home, take me. Ten thousand hands, put me back on like a coat. Turn the house lights down. Let the loud climb back into my throat. When the crowd goes home, take me, every pocket, every door. Split me ten thousand ways and keep every piece. Just leave me the ring, and I'll come back for more.
Outro
House lights up. Ten thousand backs. Room key won't take. When the crowd goes home, take me.
Inside the recording
House lights up. Ten thousand backs. One door, one click, and the loud walks out.
When the crowd goes home, they take me. Ten thousand hands set me down like a coat.
House lights up. Ten thousand backs. Room key won't take.
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