Fantastic Negrito Sings "Lost in a Crowd" At WIRED

Ladies and gentlemen, thank you for coming.

There's only one Fantastic Negrito in the world!

Only one, I don't care where you go.

I checked.

(audience laughing)

And right now, it's with the good people of Wired.

You know, I started playing on the streets two years ago.

'Cause I'm a middle-aged guy, and I just couldn't figure out

what to do, but I wanted to relieve the stress,

so I wrote about people.

(strumming guitar)

Mm, you're lost in a crowd.

You feel your thoughts out loud.

Lost in the wilderness of the sound.

Get through the day.

Come on, don't drown.

Life, it goes fast.

Youth is gone.

Feelings of lost.

Come on, grieve.

Move on.

Stuck in the shadows of a lie

that you tried to leave behind.

(Lost in a Crowd by Fantastic Negrito)

♫ Lost in a crowd

♫ You feel your thoughts out loud

♫ Lost in the wilderness of the sound

♫ Get through the day, come on, don't drown

♫ Life it goes fast, youth is gone

♫ Feeling of lost, come on, grieve, move on

♫ Stuck in the shadows of a lie

♫ That you tried to leave behind

(humming)

♫ The games that people, they play

♫ They slave through the year for a holiday

♫ Stuck in a room for too long

♫ Waiting to hear your favorite song

♫ Wait, panic, freak out, I'm out on a ledge

♫ Shapeless expression, lame, dead

♫ Eat till you're fat, eat till you're dumb

♫ Spend all your money until you come

(humming)

♫ Well, we travel, and we travel trying to find it

♫ I know that neither one of us

♫ No, neither one of us can survive it

♫ Oh, to the good Lord

♫ We travel, and we travel trying to find it

♫ I tell ya, we're just people, lonely people, you and I

♫ We're just people, lonely people, you and I

Piano solo.

He's bad too.

I told them people, I said y'all gotta...

♫ Stand in the line

♫ Wait for your turn, don't you cry

♫ 'Cause they make the best dream past

♫ You took their money, now you die

♫ Feelings of rage and broken bones

♫ Lost in a crowd, now you're on your own

♫ This is your life, now you're grown

♫ There's no tomorrow, it's here, it's on

The Devil in the background singing...

(humming)

♫ Well, we travel, and we travel, trying to find it

♫ I know that neither of us

♫ No, neither one of us can survive it

♫ No, no, no, no, I know it so well

♫ We travel, and we travel, trying to find it

♫ But I know we're just people, lonely people, you and I

♫ We're just people, lonely people, you and I

Sometime we'll sing together, we go...

♫ La la la, la la la, la la la

♫ La la la, la la la, la la la

♫ La la la la, la la la

♫ Lonely people

(audience applauding)