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Gus Mahoney

Nebraska, Again

Drove trucks for eleven years and writes like someone with time to think and no radio

style

  • alt country
  • americana
  • pedal steel
  • brushed drums
  • male baritone
  • weathered and plainspoken
  • warm analog
  • storytelling
  • southern american drawl
  • warm

the numbers

bpm
83
key
A# major
energy
0.70
dance
0.94
valence
0.39
vocal at
2.5s
length
3:58
language
En

lyrics

(instrumental, slow)

I pulled in at the exit where the payphone used to be
There's a coffee place and nothing else the same
I sat there with the engine off for maybe half an hour
And then I did the thing I should have done

I called her from the parking lot (parking lot)
Not soon, not sometime, now
She picked up on the second ring
And said my name out loud

Nebraska, again
(again, again)
Same exit, same rain, different man
Nebraska, again
I said the fourteenth and she said "you can"

Eighteen years of soon is a long thing to undo
It doesn't come apart in one phone call
But she laughed once, near the end, at something small
And I have not stopped hearing it since

Her kids are called Maren and Wyatt.
I have known that for six years and never used their names.
Maren and Wyatt. I'm going to get that right.
(drums return, gently)

Nebraska, again
(again, again)
Same exit, same rain, different man
Nebraska, again
I said the fourteenth and she said "you can"

(again...)
Nebraska, Again — Gus Mahoney · FERAL