We want a band that plays loud and hard every night

That doesn't care how many people are counted at the door

That would travel one million miles

and ask for nothing more than a plate of food and a place to rest

They'd strike chords that cut like a knife

It would mean so much more than t-shirts or a ticket stub

They'd stop at nothing short of a massacre

Everyone would leave with the memory that there was no place else in the world

And this was where they always belonged

We would dance like no one was watching

With one fist in the air

Our arena just basements

and bookstores across an underground America

With this fire we could light

Just gimme a scene where the music is free

And the beer is not the life of the party

There's no need to shit talk or impress

'Cause honesty and emotion are not looked down upon

And every promise that's made and bragged

is meant if not kept

We'd do it all because we have to, not because we know why

Beyond a gender, race, and class,

we could find what really holds us back

Let's make everybody sing

That they are the beginning and ending of everything

That we all are stronger than everything they taught us that we should fear