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OPEN UP THE GATES

from BIG AS LIFE by HAMELL ON TRIAL

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The writing of this song was so weird, such a gift from the universe if you will, I still think back and marvel at it. What I have found in terms of my writing, and everybody is uniquely different obviously, is I can spend a long time crafting a particular song, dozens of drafts, bringing it out live and running it up the pole, going back and reforming it, and then maybe my subconscious 'rewards' me with a full formed 'quickie'. I was going to be playing my first SXSW music conference and I was practicing my set, I used to have a spoken word piece about the death of my parents and I felt I needed a song about my mother. This was determined on a Monday prior to my Friday night showcase at The Chicago House, a much mourned venue in Austin. I wrote it in 15 minutes. Honest. First draft. Needless to say I thought I had made a break through and all my subsequent songs were going to be that easy but of course no such luck. It's still tough work, but this one is of course genuinely inspired and has a lot of 'breath and space' to it.

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Open up the gates for her, hear the trumpets blare, a warm Miles Davis welcome, let her dance with Fred Astaire.
Open up the gates for her, bring her Estee Lauder and pictures of her daughter and her only son, she'll want them.
Open up the gates for her, she don't need no resume no credit checks today no references except mine.
And open up your ears to her, she will teach you of compassion and she will help you fashion tenderness in time.
Don't lose her in paperwork or files, don't shuffle her along with phony smiles...'cause I've lost faith in even you...
Open up your ears to me, though I'm no man of great renown, I've got no weight to throw around, and perhaps I'm headed down...
But if I hear she's been ignored, deprived of her reward, heaven hath seen no fury, like a son that's scorned...be forewarned...
Open up the gates for her, wider, wider, wider and see the love that is inside her....

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from BIG AS LIFE, released October 7, 2013

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HAMELL ON TRIAL Austin, Texas

Hamell on Trial is loud, fast music informed by politics, intelligence and a wicked sense of humor.
1995-Mercury Records-Big as Life, The Chord is Mightier Than the Sword.
1997- Choochtown
2003-Righteous Babe Records-Tough Love
2005, Songs For Parents Who Enjoy Drugs.
2007-“The Terrorism Of Everyday Life,” (Edinburgh Fringe Herald Award)
2012-New West Records -The Happiest Man Alive. ... more

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