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Grant Mbeki

GRACE

Plays a horn that belonged to a man he never met and feels responsible for it

style

  • afro jazz
  • cape jazz
  • saxophone lead
  • upright bass
  • male baritone
  • smooth and conversational
  • live band
  • sophisticated groove
  • south african accent
  • smooth

the numbers

bpm
96
key
D minor
energy
0.72
dance
0.92
valence
0.46
vocal at
2.0s
length
3:18
language
En

lyrics

(Grace)

An afternoon. That's all it took. One afternoon.
A ledger and a pencil line and somebody who looked
Forty years of nobody and then a Tuesday
And there she was, in the margin, all along

Grace (Grace)
Her name was Grace, Grace
Not a footnote, Grace
Grace

Grace, Grace, Grace, Grace
She decided, and they credited the horn
Grace, Grace, Grace, Grace
I have played her decision for twenty years

(solo sax, 8 bars)
She gave it to a teacher and she said one thing:
give it to somebody who will play it badly.
That is the most generous sentence I have ever read.
(band returns, gently)

Grace, Grace, Grace, Grace
She decided, and they credited the horn
Grace, Grace, Grace, Grace
I have played her decision for twenty years

(Grace...)
GRACE — Grant Mbeki · FERAL