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JUNIPER FALL

MARGARET AT THE GATE

Writes third-person short stories and sings them as if they happened to her

style

  • folk-pop
  • literary narrative songwriting
  • fingerpicked guitar
  • string arrangement
  • intimate breathy female vocal
  • cottagecore warmth
  • american accent
  • wistful and detailed
  • american accent
  • wistful

the numbers

bpm
89
key
A# major
energy
0.68
dance
0.81
valence
0.28
vocal at
10.2s
length
2:27
language
En

lyrics

(at the gate)

She married in October in a dress her mother made
And four fields east the other brother stood beside the gate
He didn't come inside the church, he stood there in the shade
And everybody saw him and not one of them said wait

And a village is a hundred mouths that know
And a village is a hundred mouths that won't

Margaret at the gate, Margaret at the gate
Fifty years of barley and a walk she took alone
She was never late for anything except the one thing that was fate
And she wore that like a coat until the day they took her home

He died in March. She came. She sat behind his wife.
And walked home by the long field for the last time in her life.

I made her up. There was a field. There was a story half-begun.
My grandmother stopped talking and I built the other one.

Margaret at the gate, Margaret at the gate
Fifty years of barley and a walk she took alone
She was never late for anything except the one thing that was fate
And she wore that like a coat until the day they took her home

(until they took her home)