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AFTER HOURS SAINT

ANSWERPHONE

Records alone at night and has never played a show

style

  • darkwave
  • coldwave synth
  • retro drum machine
  • detached melancholic male vocal
  • icy arpeggios
  • minimal and hypnotic
  • lo-fi eighties production
  • american accent
  • cold and romantic
  • american accent

the numbers

bpm
112
key
D# minor
energy
0.73
dance
0.95
valence
0.45
vocal at
2.6s
length
3:57
language
En

lyrics

(a cassette rewinds)
(beep)

I kept the old machine plugged in
Your outgoing message, forty seconds
I call our number from the bar
Just to hear how the past beckons
(beep... speak now)

The tape is wearing thin in places
Your vowels are going grey
(grey, grey)

Leave a message after the tone
Leave a message after the tone
I talk to plastic when I'm alone
Leave a message after the tone
Leave a message after the tone
(no one is home)

Tonight I said, the hallway's fixed
The leak you hated — gone at last
I update you on nothing much
The future briefing to the past
(click... tape flips)

Leave a message after the tone
Leave a message after the tone
I talk to plastic when I'm alone
Leave a message after the tone
Leave a message after the tone

The phone company keeps writing
Disconnect, they recommend
(final notice, final notice)
But a dial tone is a heartbeat
If you never let it end

Leave a message after the tone
Leave a message after the tone
I talk to plastic when I'm alone
Leave a message after the tone

(forty seconds of your voice)
(beep)
(...I have nothing new)
ANSWERPHONE — AFTER HOURS SAINT · FERAL