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Riff: Bilal – “Open Up the Door”

Jun 30, 2015

It’s a long cold winter/With no real place to go/I feel like it was snowing everyday/We came so close to giving up/We came too far to give it up

from Open the Door lyrics by Bilal

Bilal and company experience their big breakthrough, but just barely. He understands the sheer exhaustion that can come with a journey as personal as self-realization, but the driving break from Adrian Younge allows him to power through, ending in what sounds like a lively Baptist revival.

Riff by Jeff Min

Jeff Min is a Chicago-based writer at SONGLYRICS. His work has appeared in the Chicago Sun-Times, Hi-Fructose, Wax Poetics, SLAM, and HOOP.

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