Strobe Lights- Track 1

TRACK 1- EVERYBODY’S DREAM

Being in a rock band.
It’s what everyone wants, isn’t it? The hordes of screaming fans, the record deal, the leap out of obscurity into the blinding lights of the media eye. It’s that and it’s even more than that. It’s recognition, the feeling that you’ve actually made something of your life, something to be remembered by once you are dust and ashes. It’s being something more than yourself, more than you believed you could ever be; transcending mortality and becoming a symbol, an aim, an idea. It’s being, in short, a star.
This is the secret wish of the everyman, the aspiration of the frustrated teenager, the middle-aged computer technician’s flight into fantasy when life just gets too normal, too humdrum. It’s something fantastic and unattainable and for the majority it will always stay that way.
But what if you get it? The full-packed arenas, the tourbus, the interviews? The love letters and the awards, the dream finally a reality? What, then, is left to aspire to?
This is the story of Alexander before he was Lex, who didn’t want it ‘til he got it, and didn’t get that it would cost him everything. A boy just like all those millions of nameless, faceless others who soared into the blazing heart of the spotlight and hoped to fly out unscathed.
All I can say is: Be careful what you wish for.