The Mad Man's Playlist

He was a menace, that was for sure.
A potential threat to the safety of the patrons and employees, heck even to himself.
I always brought up these points to our money grubbing employer yet he always had one thing to say.
"But can he sing?" And yes he could, in fact he could sing so well that it was criminal.

His musical arts were maddening, having the ability to switch fluently from slow American rap to a soulful indie song. He was a musical genius and the fans loved him.
He didn't seem to care though, being the awfully selfish bastard he was.
He just sat near his instrument's at one corner of the stage, particularly a keyboard and guitar and started a song whenever he felt like it.
He didn't care for backup's, and they knew it, nobody knew what he would sing next, everything was so random and that's how the music of the Mad Man's Bar has been since Shane was picked off the streets, put in clean clothes and masqueraded as a musician 4 years ago.

We all got in our seats, the bar bustling as usual, with patrons chatting away and some eating and drinking, or at least looked like they were.
It was clear that they all came here to listen to Shane sing, they all came to see what beautiful melody he would spew out his mouth.
It was never certain, there are days where he wouldn't sing at all, and sometimes when he sang the whole night.
Anything could be a trigger, anything could bring out a song, and every song was a blessing to hear.

I looked at him again, he sat unresponsive, resting his head on the keyboard, looking at the patrons coming in and coming out.
Suddenly he stood alert, eyes looking everywhere and anywhere.
I knew this look clearly, a song was coming.
Our patrons noticed it too, in no time, the whole room was shushed.
Shane suddenly stopped moving, then he slowly picked up his guitar and began.

It was a beautiful start, yet the song had a mood, it seemed he was in a depressive state.
I looked at my phone screen, as always I Shazamed the songs that he sings and notes them down.
Song number - 30056;Artist Name: XXX Tentacion; Song Name: Revenge.
I looked at our inconsistent maestro as he sat down on the chair, eyes closed and slowly tapping his feet. Another song was close.

The audience's attention seemed to have shifted from the stage but everyone's minds were on the song that was just sung.
I was forced to think about all the things I had done or had been done to me, then tried to imagine the things that others may have endured emotionally and physically.
It was kinda...
"Kinda depressing, isn't it?" A patron voiced, the question echoing till it reached the stage.
Odd that I could hear it as the place was meant to be noisy - I looked as the whole bar was quiet again.
Shane was about to play...

This one was way worse than the first.
Depression by Ren. It was the first time that I heard him speaking in a song, no vocals, just a soulful way of talking.
The lyrics moved me to view him in a different light.
Watching as he slowly trudged back to his seat, seeming ever tired.
He brought the chair to the center and sat down, all was quiet, no one dared move nor make a noise.

We sat in silence for almost 5 mins, looking at Shane as he sat quietly with his guitar.
"Is he asleep?" I asked out loud.

Pshhhh The mic sounded as he took a hold of it.
"The name of this song is Insomnia by Ren."
I was shocked and so was everyone, it was the first time he had decided to say the name of the song he was about to sing.
My train of thoughts stopped as he began strumming....

It was another controversial tune that left the audience speechless. Yet what truly left us amazed was the fact that Shane slept off immediately after strumming the last note.
As I carried him out from the stage, I realized he was actually mad. A mad genius.

_{I don't know why, but for some reason I truly wanted to write a story for #ttt this week.
A rather different approach 😂😂.
Not feeling fine so I slept off and kinda woke up right now but I'm gonna set my phone time back 6 hours so it's still Tuesday in my book 😃
As always for every entry, I have to tag my man @ablaze..}

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