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LAM WAI

LAST MINIBUS

Learned to sing from cassettes his father played in a taxi for thirty years

style

  • cantopop
  • neon-lit synths
  • live band warmth
  • expressive male vocal
  • eighties chord movement with modern low end
  • cantonese accent
  • romantic and nocturnal
  • cantonese accent
  • neon-lit
  • wistful

the numbers

bpm
96
key
F major
energy
0.70
dance
0.95
valence
0.57
vocal at
1.9s
length
3:33
language
Ca

lyrics

(a red sign flickers)
Sixteen seats. One of them was yours.
(yau lok... yau lok...)

The driver knows my stop by heart
He slows before I say the part
You used to shout it, half asleep
Yau lok — a word I couldn't keep
(yau lok)

Neon runs like wet ink down the glass
Every light we loved goes past
(going past, going past)

Last minibus, last minibus
Sixteen seats and one of us
Last minibus, last minibus
Home arrives too soon for us
(too soon, too soon)

Your fare card sleeping in my drawer
Two dollars short of one trip more
The dai pai dong we never tried
Keeps a table where we'd hide
(mh goi...)

Last minibus, last minibus
Sixteen seats and one of us
Last minibus, last minibus
Home arrives too soon for us
(too soon)

Faai di la, you always said
Now I'm the one who's slow instead
I let my stop go by tonight
Just to sit inside our light
(our light... our light...)

Last minibus, last minibus
Sixteen seats and one of us
Last minibus, last minibus
Home arrives too soon for us
(too soon, too soon)

(the doors fold shut)
(yau lok...)