You're Welcome

[Intro] Yeah We were in the basement While you were making vision boards [Verse 1] Raised on static, rust, and delay Cheap pizza, dead malls, and minimum pay Taught ourselves the buttons, soldered the wire Built whole little kingdoms out of doubt and desire No parade, no praise, no soft landing spot Just a key on a string and a “figure it out” Now everybody loves the world we made Funny how that works when the bill comes due [Pre-Chorus] We took the scraps We made a system Now you live inside it And forgot to mention [Chorus] You’re welcome For the signal and the sound For the broken little future That somehow still came around You’re welcome For the games and the code For dragging half the world online With a cigarette and dial tone You’re welcome [Verse 2] We got good at shrugging with our hands full Built the internet half fueled on spite and pull Made cool out of damage, style out of lack Turned secondhand pain into culture and fact Now the bright young thing with a polished TED Talk Sells back our own weather with a cleaner font That’s cute, kid, really, love the brand But some of us were here when the floor still shook [Pre-Chorus] No need to clap No need to kneel Just say thank you And keep it real [Chorus] You’re welcome For the signal and the sound For the broken little future That somehow still came around You’re welcome For the games and the code For dragging half the world online With a cigarette and dial tone You’re welcome [Bridge] No, we didn’t do it clean No, we weren’t always kind But we made weird look useful And gave a nervous planet a spine So if the thing still runs If the lights still blink at all Maybe throw a little credit To the kids who grew up small [Final Chorus] You’re welcome For the noise beneath the gloss For the grit inside the engine For the beauty in the loss You’re welcome For the tone and undertow For making broken systems sing With nowhere else to go You’re welcome [Outro] No parade necessary A card would be nice