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Gus Mahoney

Keep the message, keep the message

Drove trucks for eleven years and writes like someone with time to think and no radio

the numbers

bpm
172
key
A# major
energy
0.68
dance
0.94
valence
0.46
vocal at
2.5s
length
3:58
language
En

lyrics

I found it on my old black phone

Two missed calls and a cracked screen glow

Your voice came through in my rented room

At four-seventeen, in the denim blue

The charger by the sink was bent

A quarter tank and the paycheck spent

You said your new street had a river smell

I set it down when the screen went dim

I let it play on a folded chair

With the fan on low and the August air

Your last little laugh cut clean and slow

Like a barn door clickin' soft below

Keep the message, keep the message

Keep the message, keep the message

I won't erase that sound

Keep the message, keep the message

Keep the message, keep the message

Till this town lets go of me down

Now the phone lives by the coffee tin

By the keys I drop and the change within

I heard your boots in a gravel lot

Then the line went thin and the signal stopped

I keep that voicemail in the dash at night

Next to a Waffle House receipt gone white

You said don't wait up, you got a ride

I said I know, but I lied

So I let it play on a folding chair

With the fan on low and the August air

Your last little laugh cut clean and slow

Like a barn door clickin' soft below

Keep the message, keep the message

Keep the message, keep the message

I won't erase that sound

Keep the message, keep the message

Keep the message, keep the message

Till this town lets go of me down

Maybe one day I'll lose the charge

And that little voice will fade off hard

But right now it fits my hand

Like a map to a smaller land

Keep the message, keep the message

Keep the message, keep the message

I won't erase that sound

Keep the message, keep the message

Keep the message, keep the message

Till this town lets go of me down