AN~ the back up singers part is typed like this; Main is typed like this; when both parts are singing together and the same thing, its typed like this.
Nyx
I watched Styxx, she held the audience in her palm as she sang. She could hit every note in her range perfectly, she had perfect pitch! She through note after note out of her mouth and into the microphone, her arm waving above her head and the seemingly millions of people in the audience copying her move. Some were singing out the lyrics along with her, they knew all the songs she sang. The lights were turned down as to not blind people and let them all, if they chose, to look up and see the never ending amount of stars in the midnight sky.
The stars and her voice sent some into a trance, they stood there, head to the sky, they danced in the small space around them. They jumped, they waved their arms, some held up cell phones, some held up lighters, and still some sang along with her. Screaming the lyrics. I turned my gaze from the audience to Styxx. She had on her All-Stars, black skinnies, a neon orange shirt, and a fitting leather jacket. Her hair was braided into twenty or so different braids, and she had tied them back with a red ribbon. Styxx had on bangles and glow sticks, and she looked great.
"Come on every one! Jump!" she said when she had a chance. The audience started to jump, along with Styxx. She sang the last word of the song, smiling all the while.
"Hey guys!" she said to the crowd. "What do you want next?" she yelled. Muddled calls of song names came front the audience. There was a group of about twenty people all together in the very front, they all yelled "Na Na Na! Na Na Na!" at the same time.
"Alright! Na Na Na it is!" Styxx yelled into the microphone. Then she started to sing.
"Na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na
Na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na
Na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na
Na, na, na, na, na
"Drugs, gimme drugs, gimme drugs, I don't need it
But I'll sell what you got, take the cash and I'll keep it
Eight legs to the wall, hit the gas, kill them all
And we crawl and we crawl and we crawl, you be my detonator
"Love, gimme love, gimme love, I don't need it
But I'll take what I want from your heart and I'll keep it
In a bag, in a box , put an X on the floor
Gimme more, gimme more, gimme more, shut up and sing it with me
"Na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na
From mall security
Na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na
To every enemy
Na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na
We're on your property
Standing in V formation
"Na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na
Let's blow an artery
Na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na
Get plastic surgery
Na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na
Keep your apology
Give us more detonation
"More, gimme more, gimme more
"Oh, let me tell you about the sad man
Shut up and let me see your jazz hands
Remember when you were a madman?
Thought you was Batman and hit the party with a gas can
"Kiss me, you animal!
"Na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na
You run the company
Na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na
F*** like a Kennedy
Na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na
I think we'd rather be
Burning your information
"Na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na
Let's blow an artery
Na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na
Get plastic surgery
Na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na
Keep your apology
Give us more detonation
"And right here, right now
All the way in Battery City
The little children raise their open, filthy palms
Like tiny daggers up to heaven
"And all the JuV halls, and the Ritalin rats
Ask angels made from neon
And f*****g garbage scream out "What will save us?"
And the sky opened up
Everybody wants to change the world
Everybody wants to change the world
But no one, no one
Wants to die
"Wanna try, wanna try, wanna try
Wanna try, wanna try, now, I'll be your detonator
"Na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na
"Na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na
Make no apology
Na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na
It's death or victory
Na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na
On my authority
Crash and burn, young and loaded
"Na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na
Drop like a bullet shell
Na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na
Just like a sleeper cell
Na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na
I'd rather go to hell
Than be in a purgatory!
"Cut my hair, gag and bore me
Pull this pin, let this world explode!" [1]
Styxx stopped singing and the crowed went into almost a riot with applause.
"Okay, we're going to go back a million years and you guys are going to listen to one of my favorite songs!" the crowd applauded. Loudly.
"We'll be singing
When we're winning
We'll be singing
"I get knocked down
But I get up again
You're never going to keep me down (x4)
"Kissing the night away
Kissing the night away
"He drinks a whiskey drink
He drinks a vodka drink
He drinks a lager drink
He drinks a cider drink
He sings the songs that remind him
Of the good times
He sings the songs that remind him
Of the better times:
"Oh Danny Boy
Danny Boy
Danny Boy..."
"I get knocked down
But I get up again
You're never going to keep me down (x4)
"Kissing the night away
Kissing the night away
"He drinks a whiskey drink
He drinks a vodka drink
He drinks a lager drink
He drinks a cider drink
He sings the songs that remind him
Of the good times
He sings the songs that remind him
Of the better times:
"Don't cry for me
Next door neighbor..."
"I get knocked down
But I get up again
You're never going to keep me down (x4)
"We'll be singing
When we're winning
We'll be singing
"I get knocked down
But I get up again
You're never going to keep me down
"We'll be singing
When we're winning
We'll be singing!" [2]
Styxx, the back-up singers, and the dancers were all dancing around the stage, no dobtebly having the time of their lives.
"This is another favorite of mine!"
"Lying in the park on a beautiful day,
Sunshine in the grass, and the children play.
Siren's passing, fire engine red,
Someone's house is burning down on a day like this?
"The evening comes and we're hanging out,
On the front step, and a car rolls by with the windows rolled down,
And that war song is playing, "why can't we be friends?"
Someone is screaming and crying in the apartment upstairs
"Funny the way it is, if you think about it
Somebody's going hungry and someone else is eating out
Funny the way it is, Am I right or wrong
Somebody's heart is broken and it becomes your favorite song
"The way your mouth feels in your lovers kiss
Like a pretty bird on a breeze or water to a fish
A bomb blast brings a building crashing to the floor
You can hear the laughter, while the children play "war"
"Funny the way it is, if you think about it
One kid walks 10 miles to school, another's dropping out
Funny the way it is, not right or wrong
On a soldier's last breath his baby's being born
"Standing on a bridge, watch the water passing under me
It must've been much harder when there was no bridge, just water
Now the world is small. Remember how it used to be,
With mountains and oceans and winters and rivers and stars?
"Watch the sky, the jet planes, so far out of my reach
Is there someone up there looking down on me?
Boy chase a bird, so close but every time
He'll never catch her, but he can't stop trying
"Funny the way it is, if you think about it
One kid walks 10 miles to school, another's dropping out
Funny the way it is, not right or wrong
On a soldier's last breath his baby's being born
Funny the way it is, nor right or wrong
Somebody's broken heart becomes your favorite song
Funny the way it is, if you think about it
A kid walks 10 miles to school, another's dropping out.
"Standing on a bridge, watch the water passing under me
It must've been much harder when there was no bridge, just water
Now the world is small. Remember how it used to be,
With mountains and oceans and winters and rivers and stars?" [3]
"Okay, tell me if any of you recognize this next song from a million years ago in, like, 2010." Styxx flashed a perfect smile.
Styxx told something to the backup singers and dancers, and to the musicians behind her. The next song started and almost everyone in the crowd started to dance.
"It's too late baby, there's no turning around
I've got my hands in my pocket and my head in a cloud
This is how I do
When I think about you
I never thought that you could break me apart
I keep a sinister smile and a hold of my heart
You want to get inside
Then you can get in line
But not this time
"Cause you caught me off guard
Now I'm running and screaming
"I feel like a hero and you are my heroine
"I won't try to philosophize
I'll just take a deep breath and I'll look in your eyes
This is how I feel
And it's so surreal
I got a closet filled up to the brim
With the ghosts of my past and the skeletons
And I don't know why
You'd even try
But I won't lie
"You caught me off guard
Now I'm running and screaming
"I feel like a hero and you are my heroine
Do you know that your love is the sweetest sin?
"And I feel a weakness coming on
Never felt so good to be so wrong
Had my heart on lock down
And then you turned me around
I'm feeling like a new born child
Every time I get a chance to see you smile
It's not complicated
I was so jaded
"And you caught me off guard
Now I'm running and screaming
"I feel like a hero and you are my heroine
Do you know that your love is the sweetest sin?
"(I feel like a hero and you are my heroine)
And I feel a weakness coming on
Never felt so good to be so wrong
Had my heart on lock down
And then you turned me around
(Do you know that your love is the sweetest sin?)
I'm feeling like a new born child
Every time I get a chance to see you smile
It's not complicated
I was so jaded
"(I feel like a hero and you are my heroine)
And I feel a weakness coming on
Never felt so good to be so wrong
Had my heart on lock down
And then you turned me around
(Do you know that your love is the sweetest sin?)
I'm feeling like a new born child
Every time I get a chance to see you smile
It's not complicated
I was so jaded." [4]
"And we're down to the last song of the night." Styxx called through the microphone. There were 'awwwwwws' coming from the crowd in waves. "I know, I don't want it to be over either! But come on and sing with me the song that got me back into this!" cheers came from the crowd at being invited to sing along.
The guitar started up in the background.
Dun dun dun. Dun dun, dun-nun. Dun dun dun. Dun, dun.
Dun dun dun. Dun dun, dun-nun. Dun dun dun. Dun, dun.
Then the symbols.
Chsh-tuka-chsh-tuka-chsh-tuka-chsh-tuka.
Chsh-tuka-chsh-tuka-chsh-tuka-chsh-tuka. Ssssshk
Chsh-tuka-chsh-tuka-chsh-tuka-chsh-tuka.
Chsh-tuka-chsh-tuka-chsh-tuka-chsh-tuka. Ssssshk
Then the snare.
Chsh-tuka, tap! chsh-tuka, tap! chsh-tuka, tap! Chsh-tuka, tap!
Chsh-tuka, tap! chsh-tuka, tap! chsh-tuka, tap! Chsh-tuka, tap! Ssssshk
Chsh-tuka, chsh-tuka, chsh-tuka, chsh-tuka, tap!
Chsh-tuka, tap! chsh-tuka, Tap! chsh-tuka, tap! Chsh-tuka, tap! Ssssshk
Then the bass.
BoumBoumBoumBoum;
, Boum
This was repeated once, then came the voices of Styxx and the crowd.
"We all came out to Montreux
On the Lake Geneva shoreline
To make records with a mobile
We didn't have much time
Frank Zappa and the Mothers
Were at the best place around
But some stupid with a flare gun
Burned the place to the ground
Smoke on the water, a fire in the sky, smoke on the water
"They burned down the gamblin' house,
It died with an awful sound
and Funky Claude was running in and out
Pulling kids out the ground
When it all was over
We had to find another place
But Swiss time was running out
It seemed that we would lose the race
Smoke on the water, a fire in the sky, smoke on the water
"We ended up at the Grand Hotel
It was empty cold and bare
But with the Rolling truck Stones thing just outside
Making our music there
With a few red lights and a few old beds
We make a place to sweat
No matter what we get out of this
I know, I know we'll never forget
Smoke on the water, a fire in the sky, smoke on the water!" [5]
"I'll see you guys!" Styxx said as she waved one last time and then walked backstage. She gave a hug to each musician, dancer, and back-up singer saying "You all did awesome!"
Styxx hugged Thos and me and then grabbed a water bottle from the counter. She drained it in two gulps.
"Styxx, people are wanting autographs." Thos said, glancing over at the backstage entrance.
Styxx grabbed a sharpie and went over, and then started to sign albums, slips of paper, shirts, e.t.c. Until there was no one left in the stadium.
AN~I'm not too crazy about this chapter. . .
1: "Na na na" by My Chemical Romance
2: "I Get Knocked Down" by Smashmouth
3: "Funny The Way It Is" by Dave Mathews Band
4: "Hero Heroine" by Boys Like Girls
5: "Smoke On The Water" by Deep Purple