I play to the mood and shift it at a whim watching the audience flow with the wave until I step off stage and feel their collective sigh of relief at releasing whatever they walked in with.
It is our job as artists to find that spot in their mind they had no idea they withheld and help them heal.

“Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness.”
― Maya Angelou