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NORTHERN EXIT

LEAVE AT SIX

Left home at sixteen with a bag and has written about that morning for thirty years

style

  • hi-NRG synth-pop
  • eighties sequenced bassline
  • soaring falsetto male vocal
  • bright arpeggios
  • driving disco drums
  • euphoric melancholy
  • scottish accent
  • urgent and defiant
  • scottish accent
  • urgent

the numbers

bpm
136
key
E major
energy
0.69
dance
0.97
valence
0.59
vocal at
7.8s
length
3:34
language
En

lyrics

(six o'clock)

The first train out is six o'clock and nobody is awake
I have a bag and forty pounds and a jacket that is wrong
My father is asleep and will not know until the afternoon
And by the afternoon I will be four counties gone

And they knew, they all knew
The whole town knew before I did
And not one of them ever said a kind word about it

Leave at six, leave at six
Do not look at the house, do not look at the house
Leave at six, leave at six
There is nothing behind you that will follow you south

Thirty years and I still wake at six and cannot sleep again
My body still thinks there is a train and I still have to be on it

Leave at six, leave at six
Do not look at the house, do not look at the house
Leave at six, leave at six
There is nothing behind you that will follow you south

(leave at six)