Sammy picks up his old battered guitar and smiles at Elidh, “Thank you very much, and thank you for this interview, I do have a track to play now for everybody here. I’m going to be releasing this live version of the track as a single as well. It’ll hopefully do well, and I suppose it’ll probably be an official single from that last EP to keep people ticking over before the album cycle starts.”
He gentle runs his fingers over the strings and it makes a quiet noise. “Okay then, this one is one of my favourite tracks that I’ve written. It’s called
Your Real Disguise, and I suppose I should start playing it now.” He laughs quietly and then runs his hand quickly through his messy ginger hair.
Sammy’s fingers caress the strings again and he plays a simple guitar riff. As the riff increases in pace and complexity Sammy starts to nod his head and roll it around on his neck. He is completely relaxed and is playing it perfectly still. A mystical vibe starts to come from this riff which fits in with the name of the song already, the mystical vibe linking with the idea of a disguise. The riff gets about half way through and then Sammy starts to sing.
“I’m falling to pieces,
Realising you weren’t real,
It was a shock to me,
When I discovered that you didn’t love me.”
Sammy looks directly into the camera and smiles. When he smiles his eyes light up, this emphasises how much he really does love performing and music just generally. Now the rhythm on the guitar changes slightly and moves onto something much more jumpy. The transition is very sudden, yet works very well.
“ I just wanna feel your heart beating,
And forget that you were cheating,
I just hate the fact that you and me,
Well I thought that we were meant to be…
When I feel your lips touch mine,
Everything is fine,
The passion in your eyes,
Is your real disguise.
Your real disguise.”
The first verse finishes and Sammy steps up his vocal performance now. He shows his vocal range by powerfully blasting out a chorus which helps him to connect with the audience, allowing him to be inclusive of all of the people that have ever felt this way. His strumming his increased in pace and then he makes one last strum half way through the last line allowing it to fade as he finishes it.
Now the song leads into the second verse. It speeds up again and continues with the jumpy rhythm that was introduced in the first verse.
“You are the glint in my eye,
The soul of the party,
Without you my heart dies,
And it won’t restart yeah,
I just feel so empty,
Now that you’re gone,
But I don’t want this
Anymore, because it’s wrong.”
The verse ends without much spectacular happening, but it then leads into yet another powerfully sung chorus. This helps to really capture the spirit of the song and as Sammy inhales at the end, it is clear to the viewers that Sammy is really into this song and getting really involved. He quickly plucks at the guitar a few times and then heads straight into the rapped verse of the song.
“Your disguise is one I’ll never be fooled by again,
I know what I’m looking for now, shame it’s now and not then,
I’ll keep on spitting my bars over my music forever,
Even though you and I will never be together
Ever again, because the lies you told are too big,
So I’ll forgive but never forget all of your bullshit.
I have a heart, and it was broken,
But my voice is hear, although it may be croaking,
You hurt my bad, and I’ll never forget
But for the time being, it’s not over yet”
The song finishes and Sammy’s head dips as if the trance of the music has been lifted. He looks back up into the camera and smiles. “Thank you very much, I am Sammy Griffin, that was ‘
Your Real Disguise’, it’ll be available for download on Sunday, go and get it!!”