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RIOT SEASON

Eleven People

Played to eleven people for six years and then to eleven thousand in one summer

style

  • indie rock
  • stadium rock
  • driving guitars
  • anthemic chorus
  • male baritone
  • urgent and rousing
  • big live drums
  • singalong energy
  • festival scale
  • british accent

the numbers

bpm
144
key
F minor
energy
0.75
dance
0.95
valence
0.47
vocal at
2.3s
length
3:02
language
En

lyrics

(instrumental)

Eleven people, February, a room above a pub
I counted them from the stage because there was time to count
Then I stopped counting because counting is a choice
(is a choice)
And I chose to play like the room was full instead

Our drummer nearly quit that night (nearly quit)
He went outside. He came back. That's the band.

Eleven people!
(eleven, eleven)
Every single one of them is why this happened
Eleven people!
I'd play that room again tomorrow, honestly

Somebody films us now from the barrier every night
Forty thousand phones and I still see that room
Not nostalgia, it's arithmetic, it's simply where it started
(where it started)
You do not get here without eleven people first

(crowd chant, no instruments)
Eleven... eleven...
(BAND CRASHES IN)

Eleven people!
(eleven, eleven)
Every single one of them is why this happened
Eleven people!
I'd play that room again tomorrow, honestly

(eleven!)