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"Rooftops (A Liberation Broadcast)" is a song by Welsh rock band Lostprophets. The song is released as the first single from their third album Liberation Transmission.
The first live performance of the single in the UK was in the Muni Arts Centre in Pontypridd on 24 April 2006 prior to it even getting radioplay. The B-sides found on the single came from the same sessions — all of which are brand new tracks.
The single entered the UK Singles Chart at #8, making it the highest performing Lostprophets single along with "Last Train Home". It was nominated for the Kerrang! Award for Best Single.
The music video for the song, filmed on location in Los Angeles, California and directed by Ryan Smith, shows the band on top of what appears to be a helicopter pad. At the beginning, the individual members of the band are shown, while a flag showing the band's logo, flutters behind them. As the band sings, three teenagers are shown. They are a girl sitting at dinner with her parents when they suddenly start arguing, a boy in a kitchen as his boss starts shouting at him, and a boy sitting in the back seat of a car while his father shouts at him. As the band reaches the "scream your heart out" refrain near the end of the song, the teenagers start to scream suddenly. The girl with the arguing parents shatters every glass on the table as her mother covers her ears, the diner boy blowing plates off the shelf in front of him, and the boy blowing out the car's windows. The band finishes playing, and the view fades out.
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Staring at the broke street light.
Some of those lonely nights.
I didn't know if we would make it through.
Staying up till five a.m.
Watching the sun come up again i'de do it all again if I could.
Prechorus: So if I call will you be there I miss the nights we used to share
Chorus: Up on the rooftop listening to punk rock. Nobody believed us this could be our one shot.
That was all we had. The nights that we wasted got us through the days that seemed never ending, always in
a haze. But we just didnt care. No we just didn't care.
The only place that we could go.
Staring at a world we didn't know.
Wondering if this was all we had.
40 oz. intoxicated dreams, all our faded memories.
Thats what made us who we are today.
Prechorus..............
Chorus..............
All these nights left alone is what made us.
All these nights left alone is what made us.
Its what made us.
Chorus(x2)..............