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CATHEDRAL HOUR

EVERY HAND UP

Played to eleven people for nine years and writes every song for eighty thousand anyway

style

  • anthem
  • stadium
  • huge reverb drums
  • massed crowd vocals
  • soaring male vocal
  • wide guitars
  • cinematic build
  • big singalong chorus
  • british accent
  • triumphant and enormous

the numbers

bpm
136
key
A major
energy
0.71
dance
0.94
valence
0.50
vocal at
5.3s
length
3:19
language
En

lyrics

(every hand up)

Eleven people in a room in Salford in the rain
And I played it like the roof was somewhere else entirely
You have to sing to the room you have decided to deserve
Or you will only ever be as big as what you can see

And belief is not a feeling
Belief is a rehearsal
You do it in an empty room until the room arrives

Every hand up, every hand up
I have been counting a crowd that has not turned up yet
Every hand up, every hand up
And one day the arithmetic will simply agree with me

(oh-oh-oh-oh, oh-oh-oh)
(oh-oh-oh-oh, oh-oh-oh)

Nine years, and the eleven became forty, became four hundred
Which is not a miracle, it is just a slope with a long run-up

Every hand up, every hand up
I have been counting a crowd that has not turned up yet
Every hand up, every hand up
And one day the arithmetic will simply agree with me

(oh-oh-oh-oh, oh-oh-oh)
(oh-oh-oh-oh, oh-oh-oh)

(every hand up...)
EVERY HAND UP — CATHEDRAL HOUR · FERAL