Middle Name

style

• synth pop
• darkwave pop
• analog synth bass
• gated drums
• androgynous vocal
• cool and detached
• cinematic and moody
• 80s influenced modern production
• american accent
• standard radio arrangement

the numbers

bpm

144

key

F minor

energy

0.73

dance

0.89

valence

0.50

vocal at

2.8s

length

7:59

language

En

lyrics

(instrumental)

Fourth coffee and I finally asked what your middle name was
Eleven months of knowing how you hold a frightened stranger
And not one biographical fact, not one, not even a decade
(not a decade)
We built the whole thing out of behaviour and no data

You said it and I laughed (I laughed)
Not at it. At how enormous a small fact felt.

Middle name
(middle name)
Eleven months in and we are still on the introductions
Middle name
Everything about us has arrived in the wrong order

You know what I am like when someone is dying in a corridor
You do not know where I went to school or what I fear
And honestly the first one is the better character reference
(character reference)
Anybody can have a childhood. Not everybody stays calm at four.

We are doing this the hard way, permanently, I think.
Backwards, in daylight, with nothing to hold.
Fifth one is Thursday. I know your middle name now. That's progress.
(DRUMS RETURN)

Middle name
(middle name)
Eleven months in and we are still on the introductions
Middle name
Everything about us has arrived in the wrong order

(middle name...)