The Conductor - The Faint

Confident with your back to the audience

Tremolo strings begin with your gesturing wrist

Start the orchestra slow with an elegant aire

Then a circular sweep crescendoing swell

Leo Slatkin, Dohnanyi, previne, depaur

Your arms are calling out

They wave like a swarm of sound

You pull the sound from scores of notes

You step the stage and take control

You’re conducting ver’ese in a moment of silence

Your body directs a pulse of wind

Von Karajan, Hampton, Menuhin, Levine

Your arms are calling out

They wave like a swarm of sound

You pull the sound from scores of notes

You step the stage and take control

Your arms are calling out

They wave like a swarm of sound

You pull the sound from scores of notes

You step the stage and take control

Control, control, control

Control, control, control

Control, control, control