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Otto Lindqvist

LEARNING TO NARRATE

Trained as a cellist and plays guitar like one; talks less than anyone in the studio

style

  • melodic doom
  • gothic pop
  • heavy detuned guitars
  • cello
  • male bass-baritone
  • mournful and vast
  • slow crushing groove
  • cinematic
  • finnish accent
  • heavy

the numbers

bpm
136
key
D# minor
energy
0.69
dance
0.93
valence
0.48
vocal at
2.7s
length
3:52
language
Fi

lyrics

(to narrate)

I have started saying things out loud in the room now
Small ones. "That is good." "I do not like the snare."
And it costs me something every time that nobody can see
And the producer looks up like a man being spoken to by furniture

Learning to narrate (to narrate)
At forty-one, to narrate
Badly, to narrate
To narrate

To narrate, narrate, to narrate, narrate
Eleven years of orchestras taught me that speaking is rude
To narrate, narrate, to narrate, narrate
And one sentence in June undid the entire education

He said "you could have mentioned that" and he was being kind.
He did not know he was describing my whole life in six words.
I could have mentioned that. To everyone. About everything. Always.
(BAND RETURNS, ENORMOUS)

To narrate, narrate, to narrate, narrate
Eleven years of orchestras taught me that speaking is rude
To narrate, narrate, to narrate, narrate
And one sentence in June undid the entire education

(I could have mentioned that...)
LEARNING TO NARRATE — Otto Lindqvist · FERAL