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