Paper Thunder

One - two - you paid for the storm!

I came in for the lightning, I paid up at the gate They sold me a folded promise and they told me I should wait No engine in the casing, no fire on the disc Just a ticket to a riot that nobody would risk

I shook it by my ear like a kid on Christmas day Expecting holy thunder, got a whisper of decay The cover roars like sirens but the inside makes no sound A loaded gun of nothing and a hammer with no round

You can't grip a download, you can't crank a code Give me steel in my hands or get out of my road

Paper thunder! All flash and no flame! A storm in a wrapper with nobody's name I wanted the roar, you gave me the claim Paper thunder, paper thunder, that's a hell of a game

They want the whole world weightless, floating clean up off the shelf Call it travelin lighter, call it freeing up yourself But these hands were built for holding, for the heft and for the strain And a man can't raise a lighter to a sky that holds no rain

And alone here in the quiet, with the empty in my hands I remember when a record was a world a man could stand I would hold the whole thing heavy, feel it turnin', feel it slow Now there's nothin' left to carry, and there's nowhere left to go

So before the lights come up again... let me hold it one more time...

PAPER THUNDER! All flash and no flame! A storm in a wrapper with nobody's name I wanted the roar - so I'll BE the roar! Paper thunder, paper thunder, give me somethin' to hold once more!

Paper... thunder... That's the encore... that's the encore...