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WILDER THAN THIS

FOUR QUIET YEARS

Was medicated into silence at nineteen and writes now exactly as loud as she actually is

style

  • raw defiant pop
  • huge belted female vocal
  • sparse verses into enormous chorus
  • live drums and distorted piano
  • unfiltered emotional delivery
  • american accent
  • unhinged and triumphant
  • american accent
  • unhinged
  • defiant

the numbers

bpm
129
key
A# major
energy
0.69
dance
0.93
valence
0.49
vocal at
1.9s
length
2:49
language
En

lyrics

There's a photograph of me at twenty-two that I can't look at
Same face, same coat, same haircut, and a stranger underneath
I was pleasant at that party, I was pleasant every day
And I didn't write a line for four years and I didn't grieve

Nobody asks what happened to the loud one
Nobody notices when the loud one gets polite

Four quiet years, four quiet years, and everybody liked me fine
Four quiet years of being manageable, easy and benign
You want that girl, you can't have her, she's not coming back at all
I let her go in a car park and I have not called

My mother liked me better then, she's never said it out
But her voice does something different when I'm loud

Four quiet years, four quiet years, and everybody liked me fine
Four quiet years of being manageable, easy and benign
You want that girl, you can't have her, she's not coming back at all
I let her go in a car park and I have not called

I have not called.