Geoff Simpson
Paoli, United States
Read My Heart ("The Message is the medium")
The songwriter putting self on display, singing from the heart to an indifferent audience - "Clever words mean nothing." The passerby gawking at the self-sacrifice on stage - "What the hell has brought you here?" The creative effort tepidly received - "There's nothing new beneath the sun in anything you've said." The songwriter, acknowledging "what I don't know", pleads the audience to - receive my "ragged offering".