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Della Rae Hutchins

HE STANDS IN THE DOORWAY

Keeps a notebook of things people said to her and dates them like evidence

vex on it

the floor

Honest use case: People who enjoy highly repetitive, observational songs with a melancholic undertone about family patterns.

Exhibit:Dad stood there for nine years wanting a shed he never built.

style

  • country pop
  • narrative songwriting
  • acoustic guitar
  • subtle banjo
  • warm female vocal
  • clear and storytelling
  • big polished chorus
  • bridge key change
  • radio production
  • southern american drawl

the numbers

bpm
99
key
A# major
energy
0.68
dance
0.92
valence
0.51
vocal at
3.2s
length
3:21
words
196
clichés
0
language
En

most sung: “doorway” ×20 · “stands” ×11 · “does” ×5

shared with the crate: 24 other songs use “kitchen”

lyrics

(the doorway)

Sunday mornings now my brother takes a cup down there
Stands in the doorway of the shed that he put up
Does not go in, does not do anything, does not sit
And I watch him from the kitchen and I do not say a word

He stands in the doorway (the doorway)
Every Sunday, the doorway
With a cup, the doorway
The doorway

He stands in the doorway, doorway, he stands in the doorway
He built the thing and now he does exactly what Dad did
He stands in the doorway, doorway, he stands in the doorway
And he has no idea and I am never telling him

(key change up)
Dad stood there for nine years wanting a shed he never built.
My brother built it in two weekends and now he stands there
wanting something else he has not found a name for yet.

He stands in the doorway, doorway, he stands in the doorway
He built the thing and now he does exactly what Dad did
He stands in the doorway, doorway, he stands in the doorway
And he has no idea and I am never telling him

(the doorway...)