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CATHEDRAL HOUR

WE HOLD UP THE SUN

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
129
key
F# major
energy
0.73
dance
0.96
valence
0.50
vocal at
5.3s
length
3:45
language
En

lyrics

(a factory gate rolls open)
(oh-oh... oh-oh-oh)

Hi-vis jacket, frost on the ground
Four-thirty and the town's asleep
We are the ones who make no sound
We are the promises they keep

Every loaf was proofed by three
(by three, by three)
Every light you wake to see
(we lit, we lit)

We hold up the sun! (up the sun!)
Before the day knows it's begun
We hold up the sun! (up the sun!)
For everyone, for everyone
We hold up the sun! (up the sun!)
So it's warm before you rise
We hold up the sun! (up the sun!)
Then we hand it to your eyes

Flour on my arms up to the elbow
First bus growling at the depot
The nurse walks out as I walk in
We pass the morning, kin to kin

If you woke to a world switched on
(switched on, switched on)
Someone carried it through the dark
(through the dark, through the dark)

We hold up the sun! (up the sun!)
Before the day knows it's begun
We hold up the sun! (up the sun!)
For everyone, for everyone
We hold up the sun! (up the sun!)
So it's warm before you rise
We hold up the sun! (up the sun!)
Then we hand it to your eyes

(the gate rolls down)
Sleep well... we've got the sun