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Tunde Bakare

BUS TO THE CAMPUS

Studied engineering and dropped out one term short; raps about the maths of getting out

style

  • uk drill
  • afroswing
  • sliding 808s
  • dark piano melody
  • male baritone
  • laconic and precise
  • sparse production
  • london cold
  • british accent
  • hard

the numbers

bpm
112
key
F minor
energy
0.66
dance
0.86
valence
0.45
vocal at
6.0s
length
1:03
words
136
clichés
0
language
En

most sung: “campus” ×5 · “said” ×4 · “bus” ×4

shared with the crate: 48 other songs use “morning”

lyrics

(the 43)

Number forty-three from ours to campus took an hour ten
Every morning for two years, top deck, back seat, headphones in
Man was writing bars in a margin of a lecture note back then
And handing in the note with the bars still on it, in the bin

Lecturer never mentioned it, not once
Marked the work, gave me a two-one, said nothing

Bus to the campus, bus to the campus, same seat every day
Two lives on one journey and I never picked a side
Bus to the campus, bus to the campus, and I got off halfway
One term short of finished with a model I can't hide

Saw him in a Sainsbury's in July, my lecturer
Said "still writing?" I said "yeah." He said "good." That's it. That's her.

(halfway)