Sweetest angel came down    Took me by the hand    Said I've got things to offer you    Help you understand    If the bombs don't get you    I'll roll with you tonight    All these things inside your head    You've got to get it right    And the band played on       Spirits of the city    Were calling out my name    When jealous guys break down and cry    They got themselves to blame    If the bombs don't get you    Take courage in the night    All those dreams inside your head    You've got to get it right       Still the band played on    And the band played on       The room was getting hotter    And someone hit the light    There was power in the darkness    There was violence in the night    And the golden sons and daughters    They were coming up for air    You were standing with your back to me    And a halo round your hair       And the questions there were many    Like how can you survive    When it's the moment    You've been waiting for    This is the moment of your life       So every dreamer pass me by    With a fix me Jesus stare in his eyes    I was born to live    I was born to die    With the queen of soul    And the king of light    All the power in the land    Pull me through to the shadowland    I was driven by some hidden hand    It's the greatest gift of all       And the band played on       Shake the ghost within you    Get up, meet up, the rising sun    Cos the old days they're the dying days    And the new day's just begun    At the end of every party    Hear the singer sing his song    May his heart stay young forever    And the dream still lingers on       I want to die    I want to live again    I want to keep on keeping on    They say a coward dies a thousand times    But the brave they die just once       So walk to me, talk to me    Hold me now spectre of love    There's a coolness under fire    And a universal love       And the band played on    Played on, played on