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Intro: full band, cold open

Verse

It started with a tiny note somebody sent to all
Just a little "Has anybody seen my cup of tea?"
Then a hundred people answered "No," and "Not me," and "Not me"
And a hundred more said "Stop replying!" to the whole company
And the inbox started snowing like a blizzard on the sea
Now the letters pile like snowbanks up against the office wall
And the snowmen in the lobby hold a meeting in the hall
And everybody's talking and it sounds like a waterfall

Chorus

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It's a beautiful, impossible, enormous kind of sound
Like a thousand little radios upon a merry-go-round
Everybody's got a megaphone and everybody's spinning round
And the words go up like confetti and they never touch the ground
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We're an orchestra of good intentions bouncing off the wall
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Verse

I promised I'd stay quiet in my corner with a snack
With my headphones and a crossword and my book about the moon
But the noise came through the ceiling like a marching band in a monsoon
And it buzzed inside my coffee and it rattled in my spoon
So I typed "Could everybody please be quiet?" around noon
And I hit the little button with a very tiny smack
And the blizzard heard me shushing it and only shouted back
Now I'm one more little snowflake on a very big snowpack

Chorus

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It's a beautiful, impossible, enormous kind of sound
Like a thousand little radios upon a merry-go-round
Everybody's got a megaphone and everybody's spinning round
And the words go up like confetti and they never touch the ground
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We're an orchestra of good intentions bouncing off the wall
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Bridge

And then I read the messages, I read them late at night
And a hundred people wrote them and they all said just the same
"Could we please just have some quiet?" signed with every single name
There's no villain in the building, there is no one here to blame
Just a hundred gentle people in a very noisy game
We were shouting at each other just to ask to be polite
We were all of us so wrong and we were all of us so right
And the snow came down all night

Breakdown

(Has anybody seen my cup of tea?) (No) (Not me)
(Could everybody please be quiet?) (Please remove me)
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Chorus

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It's a beautiful, impossible, enormous kind of sound
Like a thousand little radios upon a merry-go-round
Everybody's got a megaphone and everybody's spinning round
And the words go up like confetti and they never touch the ground
Reply all, reply all
We're an orchestra of good intentions bouncing off the wall
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Outro

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