Open Mic
This song was originally written for a collaboration project with Red Bull Amaphiko festival and a Baltimore entrepreneur, Alanah Nicole, a local kindred community engagement specialist like myself, has/had an event called “Much More Than an Open Mic”, and I was tasked with writing a song about all of it. That day, several years ago, we had a beautiful conversation about how open mics bring us all together, what makes a good open mic, how to cultivate our pain and joy into something concrete in a room.
As a host and event producer myself, it was cool to be tasked with capturing this concept. I stepped outside of myself to draft this story 4 years ago, and I dove in to deliver this first ever studio interpretation of a time that seems so distant, yet transformed by the circumstances of this pandemic. I long for live music and fellowship. If I were at my favorite open mic, we might create a house band that sounds like this. Enjoy “Open Mic”
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She sings She writes Got a room A business mind Been having dreams of chairs and tables big loud speakers Mic and cables What if we add a little light the world is dark sometimes So we sing We write We came tonight Much more than an open mic
We pay a cover for our thoughts Here we wear no mask We sing We dance We fall in love We meet our fans More than followers This is fam
And we came tonight Much more Than an open mic
They don’t say our names When we die But name us in the fight And we came to sign our name And to get Called into the light
She hears poetry She cries She smiles Almost stayed in Tonight Where I’m from We say 5 or 5000 Maybe save a life We came tonight much more than an open mic We came tonight much more than an open mic we came tonight
credits released February 2, 2021 Written and Composed by QueenEarth Beatbox, Guitar, Bass, and Keys by QueenEarth Recorded and Engineered on Mixcraft Mixed and mastered by QueenEarth in Baltimore, MD
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