Open the Window
Sometimes you look around at the world and think:
Are you 🤬 kidding me?
Everybody is talking. Governments are talking. Companies are talking. News channels are talking. Social media always abuzz. 🫣 But somehow, nobody seems to be listening.
That’s where “Open the Window” came from.
It’s about the things people would rather keep behind closed doors. The stories that get buried. The questions nobody wants asked. The people who are told to sit down, be quiet, and move along.
Yeah. No.
Open the window.
Pull up the blinds.
Turn on the lights.
Because once people start looking—and talking to each other—it gets a whole lot harder to pretend nothing is wrong.
The song is heavy because the subject is heavy. But it isn’t hopeless. That’s what the happy piano is for! 🎹
At its heart, “Open the Window” is about ordinary people realizing that their voices matter.
One person speaks:
Someone else realizes they aren’t alone.
Then another joins.
And another!
Until the thing somebody desperately wanted kept quiet…🤫 isn’t quiet anymore. 🫢
And because this is ExistentialRiffs, naturally we delivered this message with a completely unreasonable amount of bass.
We paid for the 808s! We’re using the 808s!
Turn it up. Open the windows.
Truth don’t stay quiet. 🪟🔥
Love, Exi
xx