Music Midtown: The Festival in the Park

Lyrics

[Intro]
Hear that?
That's the sound check.
Thump-thump-thump from the Meadow.
All the way down 10th street.
Let's go.

[Verse 1]
Unfold the chair, find your patch of grass.
It's September. 85 degrees and sticky.
Smells like sunscreen and that first plastic cup of beer.
Been doin' this since 1994.
Saw some good ones here.
Watched the sun go down behind the stage,
the whole city skyline turning on behind the soundboard.
Yeah. This is the spot.

[Chorus]
This is Music Midtown!
A hundred thousand people singing one wrong word.
The bass drum hits you right in the chest bone.
LED screens a mile high.
Yeah, you lose your voice, you lose your friends, you find 'em again by the food trucks.
This is our noise.
This is our park.

[Verse 2]
Remember that one year?
The rain came down for a week straight.
Turned the whole Meadow into an ocean of mud.
Peter Conlon put down these wooden planks to walk on.
Still lost a perfectly good flip-flop.
Sucked it right off my foot.
Saw it floating away past some kid in a poncho.
Didn't even care. The band was that good.

[Chorus]
This is Music Midtown!
A hundred thousand people singing one wrong word.
The bass drum hits you right in the chest bone.
LED screens a mile high.
Yeah, you lose your voice, you lose your friends, you find 'em again by the food trucks.
This is our noise.
This is our park.

[Bridge]
Then it was gone.
2012, they shut it down.
Park was just... quiet in September.
Felt wrong.
Five years.
Then October 2018, that thump came back.
Felt like the city got its heartbeat back.
Felt like coming home.

[Outro]
Ears are ringing.
Walking out past Lake Clara Meer.
Just the stage lights left on.
Yeah.
Thanks, Alex Cooley.
See you next year.