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VELVET GUILLOTINE

DON'T FINISH ME

Trained in opera, thrown out for improvising, and has never once sung a song the same way twice

style

  • theatrical
  • dramatic art pop
  • orchestral stabs
  • harpsichord
  • operatic backing vocals
  • spoken-word passages
  • cabaret menace
  • wide dynamic swings
  • french accent
  • grand and sinister

the numbers

bpm
103
key
E major
energy
0.69
dance
0.90
valence
0.55
vocal at
25.3s
length
2:32
language
En

lyrics

(a match strike, candles catching)
Paint me again. I have nothing but time.

This is my eleventh portrait now
I do not need a single one
I've sold the horses and the plough
To watch you mix vermilion

Linseed oil and turpentine
(ahh... ahh...)
The only scent I call divine

Don't finish me! (don't finish me!)
Leave my left hand as a ghost
Don't finish me! (don't finish me!)
It's the sitting I love most
Don't finish me! (don't finish me!)
Mix the morning into night
Don't finish me! (don't finish me!)
Or I'll commission you for life

The velvet chaise has worn to grey
Where I have posed a thousand hours
You said we're nearly done today
So I knocked over the flowers

What happens to a muse
When the varnish dries?
(dries, dries, dries)
I refuse (I refuse, I refuse)

Don't finish me! (don't finish me!)
Leave my left hand as a ghost
Don't finish me! (don't finish me!)
It's the sitting I love most
Don't finish me! (don't finish me!)
Mix the morning into night
Don't finish me! (don't finish me!)
Or I'll commission you for life

(a brush drops in a jar)
Tomorrow. Same light. Same chair. Forever.