As we all shuffled around the stage, I took my place behind the keyboard and started to play.

*PLAY SONG*

In the dark
And I'm right on the middle mark I'm just in the tier of everything that rides below the surface

And I watch

Esmund hit the drums and I could hear the guitars start to hum.

from a distant seventeen

And I'm short of the others' dreams of being golden and on top

Menphia, who we'd just discovered could sing, and I started to back Shad up.

It's not what you painted in my head
There's so much there instead of all the colors that I saw

We all are living in a dream,
But life ain't what it seems
Oh everything's a mess

And all these sorrows I have seen
They lead me to believe
That everything's a mess

But I wanna dream
I wanna dream
Leave me to dream

In the eyes
Of a teenage crystallized
Oh the prettiest of lights that hang
the hallways of the home

And the cries
from the strangers out at night
They don't keep us up at night
We have the curtains drawn and closed

We all are living in a dream,
But life ain't what it seems
Oh everything's a mess

And all these sorrows I have seen
They lead me to believe
That everything's a mess

But I wanna dream
I wanna dream
Leave me to dream

Esmund and I stopped playing momentarily for the bridge.

I know all your reasons
To keep me from seeing
Everything is actually a mess

But now I am leaving
All of us were only dreaming
Everything is actually a mess

All of the instruments were picked back up again.

We all are living in a dream
But life ain't what it seems
Oh everything's a mess

And all these sorrows I have seen
They lead me to believe
That everything's a mess

But I wanna dream
I wanna dream
Leave me to dream

I wanna dream
I wanna dream
Leave me to dream

Enki faded out the song with his synthesizers.

The crowd erupted into cheers as Shad finished singing, but I silenced them by playing a chord from the key of the next song.