Unrelenting Love
I am the Teriyaki man!
I don't own the show, or any music!
10# Performance: Joe
300 folding chairs had been set up in the auditorium, and it was filled to capacity. All of the lights are down, and the speakers clicked a couple of times and a single spotlight speared a stunningly beautiful, mocha skinned girl. Her voice, a warm and unintentionally sensuous contralto with just the slightest hint of smokiness flooded out and filled every crevice of the large space.
"Hello, and welcome to the talent show." She flashed a smile and light flashed off a row of dazzlingly white teeth. "We have for you tonight a group of students who will hopefully entertain you enough to justify the 4.50 you each paid for a ticket." She got the light chorus of laughs that she wanted, noticed it was 7% more than her estimate, and flashed another smile. "So first up, we have the group of Matt, Tai, Izzy, Davis, and Joe, who are playing their own instruments, so needless to say, this should be interesting." The Laughter was up another 3%, and she decided to close it up. "So now, Joe will be singing first." She took a bow, and the five or so people whose eyes weren't glued to the girl noticed fog rolling into the spotlight. It snapped off, and a heavy drumbeat and simple guitar chord rumbled on. This continued for about a minute, and then a more complex one picked up. A broader spot clicked on, and shined down upon a man in blue pants, a black shirt, and with his head down and black hair hanging to his waist. His voice picked up the first line, and sounded like a rock crusher in low gear.
"We call out to the beasts of the sea to join us; this night is yours, because one day we will all join you in the black and deep." He lifted his head and his face was painted to resemble metal. "One day, we will all go into the water! Go, into the waaaater, live there, die there, live there, die there.
We reject our earthly fires.
gone are days of land empires.
lungs transform to take in water.
Cloaked in scales we swim and swim on.
We are alive, and we'll metamorphasize, and we'll sink as we devolve back to beasts.
Our home is down here, and we've known this for year, we must conquer from the sea, we build an army with water steeds.
We'll rise, from our depths down below.
Release yourselves, drown with me, we will conquer land with water "
Another heavy cord interrupted the lyrics.
"Gone are days of land empires.
Lungs transform to take in water.
Cloaked in scales we swim and swim on,
We swim on,
We swim on…"
The drum beats spooled down, and the lights faded to a lot of applause. If the introducer had played the odds she would have seen 13% more applause than she would have expected, and if she'd have known Joe, she would have noted a full 43% of the people would have never thought Joe had it in him. The boys looked at each other, and thought the same thing as the gal retook the stage. One down and 4 to go.