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MARLOWE ASH

HALF A SECOND

Posts nothing, tours nowhere, and somehow every song leaks before release

vex on it

the run

Honest use case: People who obsess over small, fleeting moments and build entire narratives around them, perhaps to their own detriment.

Exhibit: “And I have built a whole religion on it”

style

  • dark bedroom pop
  • alt-pop
  • whispered close female vocal
  • breathy and intimate
  • sub-heavy trap-pop drums
  • detuned guitar
  • hazy reverb
  • melancholic and self-aware
  • american accent
  • aching

the numbers

bpm
92
key
F minor
energy
0.73
dance
0.89
valence
0.35
vocal at
3.3s
length
2:20
words
174
clichés
0
language
En

most sung: “half” ×14 · “second” ×14 · “know” ×4

lyrics

(half a second)

You looked over and it was nothing, it was weather
A half second where your face forgot to be arranged
And I have been living in that half second since Thursday
Like a person who has moved into a doorway

And I know what I saw
And I know I am the only witness
And I know what that makes me

Half a second, half a second
That is the entire evidence I have
Half a second, half a second
And I have built a whole religion on it

(mm, half a second)
(mm, that is all it was)

You do not know that you did it, which is the worst part
There is no one to accuse and nothing to forgive

Half a second, half a second
That is the entire evidence I have
Half a second, half a second
And I have built a whole religion on it

Half a second, half a second
And I have built a whole religion on it

(mm, that is all it was)