Exclusive: It's May!!! at Broadway Sessions Open Mic
Nov 5, 2022
That's right, it's the month we want. It's MAYYYYYY!!!! And we sprung into a spring with our All Open Mic celebration. Once a month we shine the spotlight on up and comers with songs and their hearts, and boy did they bring their A-GAME. The night featured rising star Larry Whitfield and returning starlets including Melissa Modifer, Julia Nightingale, JR Bruno and Brazilian ingenue Carol Baptista. We also saw several new faces who did NOT disappoint. Check out the beauty that blossomed here...
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When you told me you didn't need me anymore, you know, I nearly broke down and cried
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When you told me you didn't need me anymore, I went low, I nearly fell down and down and died
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Oh darling if you leave me I'll never make it alone
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Oh leave me when I beg you I'll never make it alone
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Look at my face, don't you dare turn away But I'm losing my patience
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Show me now you're the man that I want to be weak
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For the rest of my life I have so much love to give you
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Just open up your eyes and you see Time after time I find that I'm struggling
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To tell you what's burning inside A glimmer of hope that you finally say
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Yet I remain quiet All my life I've been a fool
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Said I can do you all alone How many good friends have I already lost
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How many dark nights have I know Walking up at the wrong road
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There was nothing I could find All those years of darkness Could may have burst in blood
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But now I can see Like a river flows Surely to the sea
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Darling so it goes Some things to be so won't you take my hand
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take my whole life too and I can tell calling in love
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with you. Other arms reach out to me. Other eyes smile tenderly
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Still in peaceful dreams I see the road leads back to you
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I said, Georgia. Georgia, no peace I find
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Just an old sweet song keeps Georgia. on my mind and the streets were robber
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and the water was filthy and there were no cigarettes and no haircuts
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and no thinking about the future and I sat at the harbor
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watching the American shoes And then I looked up and I saw an American smile down at me
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And I knew if I just took his hand I could at last be free
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I could want him, I could love him, only take him, only take a
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me from Italia, far from Chiaro, far with nothing that I could feel
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Who am I a regular kind of guy? I never let the clouds clutter up my sky
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learn to party but never learn to cry and even now my tears won't move they're painted on a clown
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but the rain keeps falling down I wish that I could
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Let go like a storm cloud burst through the dam like a flood, breaking down a wall
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Larry, we're going to submit you to our scientifically formulated list of 20 questions
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Oh, my God. And you are free to answer these questions as quickly and truthfully as you care to
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Yes. Are you ready? Three times last week. Okay. Oh, you know question seven already
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Larry, who's your favorite female singer? Anita Baker Great That's marvelous Who's your favorite male singer
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Titus Burgess Fair enough What's your favorite musical I know these are tough questions
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Favorite musical I know I know I know I know Carolina change Oh
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You a thinking man Yeah Would be reckless just enough Who get hurt But who learn how the toughen of when he bruised
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and gets used by a man who can love. And then he'll get stuck and be scared
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of the light that's inside him, getting stronger each day. till it finally reminds him to fight just a little
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and bring back the fire in his eyes that was gone, but it used to be mine
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It used to be mine. How about a dance
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It's always fun. Come over here. Let me get to know you
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Can't beat a band. You lift your spirit hard. You look so handsome
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How about a dance? Let's make a start. Music like this can really throw you
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You'll lose the blues and you may lose your heart. She has lovers open doors to fancy cards
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She's lucky, so lucky. She's a woman. A perfume by L'Envant to tap across her wrist
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A secret ribbon diary of all the men she's kissed. So many men she's kissed
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I treated myself like an ill one I would. I told you I was trouble, yeah, you know that I'm no good
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Sweet reunion, Jamaica and Spain, we like how we were again
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I'm in the town you understand. Licks your lips as I soak my feet
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Because it's the scars that tell my story. There's so much more to me than what needs the eye
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And if I able to bleed I know that means I alive and I will keep going though it hard to climb because the best part of life is when you mess up and I refuse to give up and each day that I falter I will work a little harder to believe in myself when there nobody else to convince me that I made
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Beauty Nothing's real Nothing's real
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Nothing's real And I miss the mountains
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I miss the lonely climb I'm wandering through the wilderness and spending all my time where the air is clear and cuts you like a night
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I miss the mountain. I miss the mountain
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I never knew his name. But I imagined him my hero, a bright and shining night
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And daddy's eyes would stop my cry and make everything all right
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all right and get he dies would stop my Christ
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oh my man I love him so he'll never know Oh, my life is just despair, but I don't care when it takes me in his arms
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The world is bright. All right, what's that difference if I say
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I'll go away when I know I'll come back on my knees someday
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But whatever my man is, I am his. For ever, my mom
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That's my man
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