I DON'T WANT TO BE HELD

style

• scandinavian pop sung in English
• blunt explicit lyrics
• hedonistic melancholy
• big synth chorus with a cold edge
• breathy-then-belted female vocal
• party-sad production
• slight swedish accent on English
• honest and unguarded
• swedish accent
• raw

the numbers

bpm

112

key

A minor

energy

0.72

dance

0.95

valence

0.46

vocal at

5.4s

length

1:58

language

En

lyrics

(don't hold me)

Everybody keeps trying to hug me since the funeral
Soft hands, sad eyes, that fucking voice people use
And I don't want to be held, I want to be pinned down
I want somebody to make me stop thinking for eleven minutes

And I know exactly how that sounds
And every woman I know has understood it immediately
And every man I've explained it to has looked frightened

I don't want to be held, don't want to be held
Don't be gentle with me, I've had gentle all week
I don't want to be held, don't want to be held
Grief is not delicate and neither the fuck am I

He was kind about it after and I couldn't look at him
Kind is what everybody's been. Kind is the whole problem.

I don't want to be held, don't want to be held
Don't be gentle with me, I've had gentle all week
I don't want to be held, don't want to be held
Grief is not delicate and neither the fuck am I

She'd have laughed at this song.
That's the only reason I wrote it.