Standing Ovation

I'm standing in the wings hearing eleven thousand people scream my name

and out of every feeling I could pick right now,

somehow the one I've got is shame

(sniffle) what if the armor doesn't go on right tonight

what if they see the actual guy,

the one who cries about a parking ticket,

under all that light

Okay. (sniffle) Steve didn't make it,

and I survived that.

Brenda shut off mid-encore,

and somehow I got through that too.

Every time I thought the crying was the end of the show

it wasn't.

It was just the part before.

I think I actually know where to go.

I hear my intro starting.

I hear the crowd get louder.

I'm not fixed, I'm not titanium and thunder I'm just a guy

who cries about ferns and fans and forty-dollar fines and ALSO the

guy about to walk out there and have the time of his

LIFE

STANDING OVATION! I'm walking out there SCARED and I don't CARE!

STANDING OVATION! Let 'em see the mascara,

let it go EVERYWHERE!

I'm not here because I fixed it!

I'm here because I showed up anyway!

STANDING OVATION! This is what unbreakable

looks like today!

STANDING OVATION!

STANDING OVATION! (yeah!) Eleven thousand people and not one of them needed

me unbreakable — just honest,

just here—

Thank you — (hahaha)

— Steve would've loved this—