[Verse 1]
Your name’s on the setlist
Cross it out and write “the band”
Your left shoe’s held together with tape
You’ve got a cable in each hand
You tell the kid beside the speakers
“Don’t worry if your voice shakes too”
Then half the room starts singing
Before the first word comes from you
[Pre-Chorus]
You’ll hear the note you missed at nine
Replay it on the ride back home
But your prone, counting the metronome
Still singing your chorus on your own
[Chorus]
You’re the last one to know
And the first one we came for
always checking your flow
Your name across the front door
It aint luck,all this excess noise
Dont say we’ve got it wrong
The greatest in the room
Is picking holes in every sound
Everybody knows, everybody knows
You’re the last one to know
[Verse 2]
Keep the bad review in your pocket
Folded till the paper’s thin
There’s a hundred good ones on your phone
You never think to read again
Last Tuesday at the station
A stranger played your song out loud
You smiled like they’d discovered
Something you were looking for yourself
[Pre-Chorus]
You can find the crack in every line
The breath you took a beat too soon
But not the kid who heard that record
And bought a guitar that afternoon
[Chorus]
You’re the last one to know
And the first one we came for
Still asking, “Was it any good?”
Your name across the front door
It aint luck,all this excess noise
Dont say we’ve got it wrong
The greatest in the room
Is picking holes in every sound
Everybody knows, everybody knows
You’re the last one to know
[Bridge]
If I told you straight, you’d laugh
Say, “Come on, don’t start with that”
So I’ll leave the lights up when we go
Let you see the faces looking back
No speech could ever make it stick
You’d find a way to wave it off
But there’s your chorus down the street
And nobody remembers where they stopped
[Final Chorus]
You’re the last one to know
And the first one we came for
Still asking, “Was it any good?”
While we’re singing through the front door
Your name across the front door
It aint luck,all this excess noise
The greatest in the room
Hasn’t got a single clue
Everybody knows, everybody knows
Everybody knows but you