[Intro]
Backroom crown
Backroom crown
Put it on my head when the lights fall down
Backroom crown
Backroom crown
I was born to shake this town

[Verse]
There’s a stage in the back where the ceiling sweats
Where the amps catch fire and the girls place bets
The carpet is sticky and the speakers scream
But it felt like a palace in a gasoline dream

I saw hungry faces in a cigarette haze
Leather boys leaning with their razorblade gaze
Some came for trouble, some came for skin
But I came for the moment I could pull them in

[Pre-Chorus]
No velvet rope
No golden door
Just broken glass
And a filthy floor

[Chorus]
Give me my backroom crown
I’ll wear it loud and dirty
Give me that backroom crown
I’ll make this midnight holy
No diamonds, no throne
Just a mic and a sound
I’ll rule this town
With my backroom crown

[Verse]
I sang about hunger and I sang about pain
Sang about lovers with poison names
The drummer hit hard like a debt came due
The bass got mean and the whole room moved

A manager smiled with his sharkskin grin
Said, baby, I can make you big if you let me in
I laughed in his face and I stole his drink
Said, honey, I’m bigger than you can think

[Pre-Chorus]
No velvet rope
No golden door
Just broken glass
And a hungry roar

[Chorus]
Give me my backroom crown
I’ll wear it loud and dirty
Give me that backroom crown
I’ll make this midnight holy
No diamonds, no throne
Just a mic and a sound
I’ll rule this town
With my backroom crown

[Instrumental]
Riff keeps grinding
Hands start clapping
Guitar bends nasty
The crowd screams Roxanne

[Bridge]
I don’t need permission
I don’t need a king
I don’t need forgiveness
For wanting everything

I don’t need your ladder
I don’t need your hand
I’ll climb up the speakers
And make my final stand

[Breakdown]
Backroom
Backroom
Sweat on the walls
Backroom
Backroom
I hear the Strip call

[Build-up]
One light
One song
One night
Too strong
One girl
One sound
One queen
Backroom crown

[Chorus]
Give me my backroom crown
I’ll wear it loud and dirty
Give me that backroom crown
I’ll make this midnight holy
No diamonds, no throne
Just a mic and a sound
I’ll rule this town
With my backroom crown

[Chorus]
Give me my backroom crown
I’ll wear it scarred and shining
Give me that backroom crown
This dirty star is rising
No diamonds, no throne
Just a mic and a sound
I’ll rule this town
With my backroom crown

[Outro]
Backroom crown
Backroom crown
Put it on my head when the lights fall down
Backroom crown
Backroom crown
Roxanne owns this town