[Verse 1 - driving, self-assured] Line’s clean, signal’s hot House is empty but the room already means a lot One two, levels right We’ve been through too much to be nervous for the lights No apology in how we play We know the sound we make and we know it’s here to stay
[Pre-Chorus] This is what it sounds like When you stop trying to sound like someone else
[Chorus - full, triumphant, locked in] Sound check, we’re alive All now synced as one, check the drive This is what we sound like now Couldn’t have planned it, didn’t know how Sound check, full and clear Everything we fought for finally here Not a copy, not a clone We’ve finally found a sound of our own
[Verse 2 - more detail, pride without arrogance] Took the long way to get here Every wrong room and right person made it clear The calluses, the notebook, the drum that wouldn’t quit The classical hands that learned to let it slip It didn’t come from nothing It came from all of us bringing all of it
[Pre-Chorus] And this is what it sounds like When the parts become the thing itself
[Chorus] Sound check, we’re alive All now synced as one, check the drive This is what we sound like now Couldn’t have planned it, didn’t know how Sound check, full and clear Everything we fought for finally here Not a copy, not a clone We’ve finally found a sound of our own
[Bridge - stripped, just Suki’s voice] You can’t rehearse this You can only earn it Room by room and note by note Until the day you recognize yourself
[Build - full band comes back in, deliberate] Check. Check. Yeah. That’s us.
[Solo]
[Final Chorus - biggest moment on the album so far] Sound check, we’re alive All now synced as one, check the drive This is what we sound like now Couldn’t have planned it, didn’t know how Sound check, full and clear Everything we fought for finally here Not a copy, not a clone We’ve finally found a sound of our own
Sound check, we’re alive All now synced as one, check the drive This is what we sound like now Couldn’t have planned it, didn’t know how Sound check, full and clear Everything we fought for finally here Not a copy, not a clone We’ve finally found a sound of our own
[Outro - warm, settled] No more searching. No more almost. Sound Check - loud and clear!