ALREADY INSIDE IT

style

• highlife
• palm wine guitar
• horn section
• gentle percussion
• male tenor
• warm and wise
• vintage west african production
• uplifting
• west african accent
• warm

the numbers

bpm

99

key

D major

energy

0.72

dance

0.93

valence

0.39

vocal at

8.6s

length

3:07

language

En

lyrics

(already inside it)

My father played this guitar for thirty-one years
And when he died in April I was frightened of it
And I picked it up in June and I did not write a thing
I just played what the neck already knew how to do

Already inside it (inside it)
The songs were already inside it
I did not write them, inside it
Inside it

Already inside it, inside it, already inside it
Thirty-one years of a man's hands wore the shape
Already inside it, inside it, already inside it
And I just follow where the wood has already been

A collector offered me good money and a better instrument.
He said this one is worn out, the frets are gone, the neck is soft.
The neck is soft because of where my father put his hand. That is the guitar.
(BAND RETURNS)

Already inside it, inside it, already inside it
Thirty-one years of a man's hands wore the shape
Already inside it, inside it, already inside it
And I just follow where the wood has already been

(inside it...)