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GIULIA FERRO

Broken Clay

Sang in a piano bar in Milan for six years before anyone asked her name

style

  • italian pop
  • modern euro-pop production
  • powerful expressive female vocal
  • huge melodic chorus
  • dance-adjacent drums
  • dramatic delivery
  • italian accent
  • glossy and passionate
  • italian accent
  • passionate

the numbers

bpm
129
key
F minor
energy
0.69
dance
0.95
valence
0.61
vocal at
4.7s
length
3:20
words
201
clichés
1
language
It

most sung: “still” ×18 · “bloom” ×17 · “broken” ×4

shared with the crate: 35 other songs use “rain” · 90 other songs use “light” · 10 other songs use “winter”

lyrics

The balcony, the cracked red pot,
the basil growing through the split.
You left in March and I did not —
I stayed and watered every bit.

The crack is where the water goes.
The crack is how the root still grows.

Still I bloom, still I bloom,
in broken clay, in empty rooms,
still I bloom, still I bloom,
you took the sun — I found the moon.
Amore, look at me now: still I bloom.

Your coffee cup sat on the shelf.
I boxed your winter by myself.
I played our last song one more time,
then raised the needle. That was mine.

Still I bloom, still I bloom,
in broken clay, in empty rooms,
still I bloom, still I bloom,
you took the sun — I found the moon.
Amore, look at me now: still I bloom.

Rain across the terracotta,
every drop a little opera.
I sing louder than the weather.
Broken things hold light much better.

Still I bloom, still I bloom,
in broken clay, in empty rooms,
still I bloom, still I bloom,
you took the sun — I found the moon.
Amore, look at me now: still I bloom.

Still I bloom...
Look at me — still I bloom.
Broken Clay — GIULIA FERRO · FERAL