Reading FC’s co-chairwoman Khunying Sasima Svrikorn has done the Championship side the great service of writing them a brand new club anthem.
Entitled ‘We Are The Royals’, the song encompasses a rap verse, a chant and an acapella section and will be played over the stadium loudspeakers to rouse the crowd before the club’s first home game of the season against Leeds United this coming Sunday.
According to Lady Sasima (a composer by trade) herself, the song is “trendy”, co-written by a “world class composer” and is very much of the “British Rock” genre. It also comes with an accompanying music video that will be played on the big screens at the Madejski before kick-off.
“I, along with my friends, wrote a song as a gift for Reading Football Club,” Lady Sasima, 76, told the Reading website.
“I was in the studio for many days doing that. It’s so meaningful for us to open the season well and for us to feel the spirit and the emotion of the fans with us. They have to be inside us.”
And so, the moment you’ve been waiting for. The lyrics…
We Are The Royals
Verse 1
We started when all the odds defied us
Through passion and dreams we reached new heights
We were marching proudly from Elm Park into the stadium
We forced our rivals to make way
Pre chorus
Now we’re here and we’re strong, we’re going to bring it on
Can you hear when we shout come on
Chorus
We will fight til the end, they call us the Royals
With our might we’ll defend, the glory of Reading
Like the kings of our land, they call us the Royals
Let us sing every man, we stand by the Royals
Verse 2
We rise to the challenge of our rivals
We’re fighting the butterflies tonight
It’s our moment, feel the expectations rising
We smell a victory today
Rap
How we love the thrill of a good game
How we like the smell of the fame
Doesn’t matter if we learn or win
Unstoppably we burn within
Getting ready to shed our sweat
Everybody get ready and set
Let’s celebrate tonight. Or blood is blue our wings are white.
Chant
Blue and white, blue and white, blue and white
Give us blue and white, blue and white. Everybody come on.
A capella
Like the kings of our land. they call us the Royals
Let us sing every man, we stand by the Royals
Stirring stuff, we think you’ll agree – and almost certain to become a staple war cry at Reading for centuries to come.
(Via Get Reading)