I had a song from a long, long time ago, twinkling around in my ether brain. I wrote a fairly usable melody to it I remember. It was called ‘Audience’. The only recorded version of it is on a highly fragile ‘tape could break’ audio cassette. The cassette is named ‘Live at the Dive’. The Dive was a room in a pub (Public House), which existed way back when. The pub’s full name was called ‘The Lady Godiva’. This live gig was our very first gig as The XCerts. A memory that cannot be chewed up in a dodgy cassette player.

Audience was a Pop Punk feel. Today, I intend to go hunting down the chords that exist somewhere in the recesses of my mind. Current Summers writes blogs. Sometimes using Fantasy and the Imaginary. The penny dropped and I remembered writing a blog about Audience a fair while back.

A bit of hunting down in the WP App found it lurking in ‘Drafts’. It was sulking. I’d dumped it there from a once Published status. Why? No idea. So here it is below and updated. Why? Because it will be nice to give Audience a bit of a make over. Intentions are to call it ‘Punk Drunk’ as a working title. Why? No idea. Maybe to drift from the shackles of old style.

The original blog had an imaginary conversation with myself to my other self.

“Who is that in the audience?

Oh! Okay.

It’s just that other guy.

The brighter, more positive me”.

 

Question……to brighter, more positive me.

 

“Will you stay a while?

Watch the show?”

 

Brighter he, who is me, answers to the currently

Stood in the shadows, dark to light to dark performer

…..We.

 

“I suppose” he says.

“But only

If you could ‘prose-pose’ a little more

And drop the

Claustrophobic Summers’ style.

Try to

Go, Go, rock and roll

Punk drunk and

Lyrically?

Think ‘Satisfied’.

We need to

Shake up, rattle and roll

Your current way of thinking……

Because……

Hey Man!

I’ve been watching you.

Dumping out

Your cray-cray words in songs

In what

Seems like forever.

And even then

You always add

One more day.

Oh yeh!

I’ve been watching you.

But have you been watching me?”

 

I answer, as he who is stood in the shadows

As the dark-light-dark performer,

And start moving into the lighter spotlit space

To become, simply……..simpler.

‘The new, from the once older performer’ …..We.

 

“Of course.

You,

I mean I,

I mean us,

I mean we

Are, and have always been, one big

Dysfunctional family.

But now…..we are, once again,

Singing in harmony.”.

I’ll use the old ‘Audience’ lyrics and change them around a bit. And add/extend one or two more verses. Up to now?

What is intended is to think rock and roll and just play it simpler. Get the feel of simpler times like Satisfied. Driven by simplicity and Punk Drunk. But still retain the Audience vibe as more Pop Punk.

AUDIENCE:PUNK DRUNK.

VERSE ONE.

Audience. Won’t you stay awhile.

I could pose (a little bit more)

Particularly if you like the style.

Hey man. I’ve been watching you.

But have you been watching me.

VERSE TWO.

This blurred image.

With no direction

Is like.

Looking in a mirror

With no reflection.

CHORUS. or, in reality, a different dynamic….?

When I’m down

I’ve gotta get up

And when I’m up

Stick around.

When I’m trapped

Then I’ve gotta break free.

How can I call myself my friend

When there’s a million reasons

Why I disagree.

Hey Man.

I’ve been watching you.

But have you been watching me?

VERSE THREE.

Back to self.

Remember you….Remember me.

Applause? We should Applaud Ourselves

It’s a bitter-sweet

Harmony.