I BUILT YOU

style

• dark pop R&B
• trap-influenced drums
• sparse piano
• wounded powerhouse female vocal
• huge accusatory chorus
• layered harmonies
• american accent
• betrayed and commanding
• american accent
• betrayed

the numbers

bpm

136

key

A# minor

energy

0.67

dance

0.94

valence

0.55

vocal at

9.6s

length

2:33

language

En

lyrics

(I built you)

Four years of calls I made and rooms I got you into
Four years of my name on nothing you ever put out
I introduced you to the man who signed you in a car park
And you thanked your mother and your manager in the speech

And I am not in the story
I have been edited out of my own four years
And everybody who was there says nothing

I built you, I built you
From a boy with a laptop and a very good face
I built you, I built you
And you cannot even say my name in an interview

Somebody asked how we met and you said "around"
Around. Four years. Around.

I built you, I built you
From a boy with a laptop and a very good face
I built you, I built you
And you cannot even say my name in an interview

I have the emails. I am not going to use the emails.
Not because I am good. Because using them makes it a story
about a bitter woman, and I refuse to be the villain in this too.

I built you, I built you
From a boy with a laptop and a very good face
I built you, I built you
And you cannot even say my name in an interview

(around...)