The Audience Is Listening

Steve Vai · Original Album Classics [2008]

Now Stevie, now don't be nervous, honey, okay

I'm gonna go in and I'm gonna introduce you

And then you're gonna come in with your guitar

And you're gonna play that nice

Nice music you were telling me about



And while you're doing that

I'll be sitting in the back of the room

We'll have such a good time

So don't you be nervous, honey

It will relax everybody, and we'll be so happy



I'm gonna go in now

I'll introduce you, okay

Heads up now you kids you

All of you, calm down that's good

Okay everyone in your own seat, that's good



Okay now

Little Stevie Vai is going to play

A composition on the guitar

He wrote it all by himself



Okay Stevie

Bring your three friends up

They can play with you

That Steve Vai, what a nice little boy



I wrote this song for all my friends

When I grow up I'm gonna be

A famous rock 'n roll guitar player

(Love it, eh, he, he, go ahead)



And this is my whammy bar

And it's gonna be loud

(Don't you think

That's a bit loud?)



Boys it's getting too loud

You're getting out of control, boys Stevie

Now calm down class, calm down Mr. Vai

You've got to turn it down



What did you say

You want me to turn it down

You mean down like this



Boys, what happened to that nice music?

That sounds like noise Mr. Vai

And I want it stopped

You've all got detention



Uh, oh, here comes trouble

(Ayy Vai, are you outta your mind?

You, guys, ya don't back off

Ya must be crazy I'm gonna flip out

I'm tellin? you if this is my final flip out

You guys are gonna go with me)

Ah, shut up



Will you two stop dancing like that?

Frankie, leave that girl alone

We're not gonna have

Another incident like Mildred



Come here to me Vai

Don't you hear me?

Come here, you little snit

Wait ?till I get my hands



Don't you run away ay, ay, ay

Ay, ay, ay, ay, ay, Vai

Knock it off get, off my desk

(Hey Andrea, check this out)



Oh, Stevie, you promised me

You'd play nice music, people out of control

Dancin? on the desks playin? with the girls

That awful noise just make people go wild

You gotta turn that music down, Stevie, please



I'm fearless in my heart

They will always see that in my eyes

I am the passion

I am the warfare I will never stop always

Constant, accurate, and intense



Mark my words, you'll never amount to anything

Steve Vai, you'll see, you'll be a bum, in the streets

A bum, that's it, a bum I thought you were

Such a nice little boy ya know what? ya mean

Ya got a mean, nasty, vicious streak



Why don't you just quit'school?

Move to California with all those other bums

Go, that's where you belong

With all those crazies out in California

Maybe you'll be famous



Thank you very much

(Ha that's the funniest

Thing I've ever heard)

Thank you very much

(You? Famous?With that noise?

HaI'll see ya in jail)



Thank you very much

(Give me a break Stevie, stop it

You'll see, mark my words)