Track 6 of the album Two Mugs · 2017
Floodlights on the Empty Seats
“The groundsman sweeping the seats after the match. A song about what's left when the noise goes home.”
xinyao · stadium folk · nostalgic anthem · 2:37
Lyrics
The floodlights hum on the empty seats The groundsman sweeps the paper sheets We came here once with the school team shirts Singing off-key and laughing through the hurt The scoreboard's dark but we know the score We won the day when we showed up for more Friends from the terraces, grown now and grey Still know all the words to the songs we'd play So sing it to the empty seats Sing it loud, let the echo meet Every voice we ever knew Singing back, and singing with you Floodlights on, and we're still here Hands in the air for the years, my dear Sing it to the empty seats Because the song is ours to keep We lost some days and we won a few The rain came in and we made it through Now I hold your hand on the centre line Two old fools in the floodlight shine It doesn't matter who's in the stands It's who you're with on the open land A crowd of two is a crowd enough When the song is true and the love is rough So sing it to the empty seats Sing it loud, let the echo meet Every voice we ever knew Singing back, and singing with you Floodlights on, and we're still here Hands in the air for the years, my dear Sing it to the empty seats Because the song is ours to keep Sing it to the empty seats The song is ours to keep