[Verse 1]
You will not catch me starin' at the sun
Not suckin’ on a Dum Dum, not turnin' 'round to run
No hallelujahs, and no kingdom comes
So you will not catch me starin’ at the sun
[Refrain]
Do you hear that thunder?
That's the sound of strength in numbers
[Verse 2]
Fee-fee-fie-fie-fo-fo-fum
I smell the blood of a million sons
A million daughters from a hundred thousand guns
Not taught by our teachers on our curriculum
[Refrain]
Do you hear that thunder?
That's the sound of strength in numbers
[Chorus]
I am I
Unify
[Verse 3]
(Hey)
Not a single thing has ever been mended
By you standin' there and saying you're offended
Go ahead, tell them what I've intended
I'll say what I mean, do what I love, and fucking send it
[Refrain]
Do you hear that thunder?
That's the sound of strength in numbers
[Verse 4]
There’s nothing brave and nothing useful
You scrawlin’ your aggro shit on the walls of the cubicle
Sayin' my race and class ain’t suitable
So I raise my pink fist and say black is beautiful
[Refrain]
Do you hear that thunder?
That's the sound of strength in numbers
[Chorus]
I am I
Unify
I am I
Unify, unify, unify
[Outro]
Do you hear that thunder?
Grounds was written by Colin Webster & Warren Ellis & Mark Bowen & Lee Kiernan & Joe Talbot & Jon Beavis & Adam Devonshire.
Grounds was produced by Mark Bowen & Nick Launay & Adam “Atom” Greenspan.
A June 2020 NME article quotes lead singer Joe Talbot describing it as “a song that embodied self-belief, and gave us self-belief – a counter-punch to all the doubt we build up from all the noise we so easily let in”. He goes on to say:
We wanted to make the sound of our own hearts’ marching band,...