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SODA LIGHT

Backseat July

Writes about a summer that may not have happened the way she remembers it

style

  • hazy dream-pop
  • 2000s nostalgia production
  • soft-focus reverbed female vocal
  • warm analog synths
  • lazy tempo
  • sensual and sun-faded
  • american accent
  • wistful and cool
  • american accent
  • wistful

the numbers

bpm
99
key
C major
energy
0.71
dance
0.91
valence
0.38
vocal at
8.2s
length
2:52
language
En

lyrics

Chlorine hair and a gas-station ice,
your flip-flop lost beneath the seat.
We played that burned CD twice —
skip on track three, still sounded sweet.

July moved slow like melting blue.
I moved slower next to you.

Almost, almost, we were almost,
close as heat on a vinyl seat,
almost, almost, we were almost —
the word I never let complete.

The disposable came back in fall —
twenty-four frames of glare and you.
Your thumb half-covering it all,
and still the best light I ever knew.

Almost, almost, we were almost,
close as heat on a vinyl seat,
almost, almost, we were almost —
the word I never let complete.

If I'd said it at the lake —
but soda left too long goes flat.
Some things sweeten as they fade.
I never got to finish that.

Almost, almost, we were almost,
close as heat on a vinyl seat,
almost, almost, we were almost —
the word I never let complete.

Almost...
Almost...
Backseat July — SODA LIGHT · FERAL