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KIANA WOLF

FORTY-THREE SECONDS

Made her first tape on breaks at a call centre and kept the job for two years after signing

style

  • melodic rap
  • sung-rap hybrid
  • atmospheric trap
  • autotuned hooks
  • moody synths
  • canadian accent
  • cold and catchy
  • canadian accent
  • grieving
  • frozen

the numbers

bpm
136
key
D major
energy
0.74
dance
0.94
valence
0.36
vocal at
8.7s
length
3:40
language
En

lyrics

(a phone buzzes once, face-down)
I still pay your phone bill.
(mmm)

Your voicemail's forty-three seconds
You laugh at thirty-two, on cue
I ration it like medicine
One listen when the month feels new
(on cue, on cue)

They tried to shut your number down
(they tried)
I pay nineteen to keep it around
(around, around)

Pick up, pick up
I know that you can't pick up
Pick up, pick up
Nineteen a month for your "what's up"
(what's up... what's up...)

Your mother called me in the snow
Asked soft, "you still have him, eh?"
I held the phone up, let it go
We didn't speak the whole replay
(eh... eh...)

If they ever cut the line
I'll still hear it fine
Thirty-two seconds in
That dumb laugh, that grin
(don't cut the line)

Pick up, pick up
Heaven's got awful signal, pick up
Pick up, pick up
Laugh one more time, then hang up
(hang up... don't)

(a dial tone)
Talk soon.