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VELVET GUILLOTINE

FOUR MINUTES' NOTICE

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
112
key
G minor
energy
0.64
dance
0.89
valence
0.47
vocal at
21.1s
length
1:47
language
En

lyrics

(quatre minutes)

Elle est tombee malade a dix-neuf heures vingt.
She was ill at twenty past seven and they came to find me.
Onze ans de couloir et on me donne quatre minutes.
Eleven years in a corridor and four minutes to become someone.

Four minutes' notice, four minutes' notice
A decade in a corridor and then a door
Four minutes' notice, four minutes' notice
And I was ready, which is the tragedy of it

J'ai su chaque respiration. J'avais tout appris d'elle.
I knew every breath because I had learned them all from her.
Ce n'etait pas de l'admiration. C'etait de la surveillance.

Four minutes' notice, four minutes' notice
A decade in a corridor and then a door
Four minutes' notice, four minutes' notice
And I was ready, which is the tragedy of it

Four minutes' notice, four minutes' notice
And I was ready, which is the tragedy of it

(quatre minutes...)
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