I'm sure we've all had our senior (and not so senior!) moments when the next word or line doesn't pop into your mind's eye. I can go to a club in the car and practice singing the whole song perfectly without mistake or waver and when it's my turn at the club, launch into the song and forget the first line and completely blow my spot or wonder why the story jumps then realise I've got the verses the wrong way round or I've mixed up the ends of verses (not that it happens very often I hasten to add - I'm not that senile - yet)
Anyway isn't the trend these days to have a book full of your songs in front of you to avoid these moments of forgetfulness? Mind you I've seen people make of mess of reading as well and it doesn't make your performance better either when you're concentrating on the written word. What happened to learning songs in the first place and developing a style of performance?

Cheers

Mark