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VIVIENNE GRAY

NEON VACANCY

Sings like a woman narrating her own film, and the film does not end well

style

  • cinematic americana
  • slow orchestral swell
  • reverbed breathy female vocal
  • tremolo guitar
  • strings and brass
  • sad glamour
  • sixties film-score production
  • american accent
  • languid and devastating
  • american accent

the numbers

bpm
144
key
E minor
energy
0.72
dance
0.90
valence
0.37
vocal at
15.5s
length
3:32
language
En

lyrics

(a neon sign flickering)

The motel sign hums VACANCY
Two letters dark, like you and me
You left your ring in the ashtray
I've driven it three states away
(away, away)

We were gasoline in church clothes
(amen)
Everyone warned us — no one knows

Vacancy — the neon glows
Vacancy — the highway knows
Vacancy — I'll leave it on
A room for you when you are gone
(vacancy... vacancy)

Your denim jacket on the chair
Half proof, half prayer, that you were there
The TV snows on channel three
It's still receiving more than me
(more than me)

We didn't end. We just ran out of road.
(out of road, out of road)

Vacancy — the neon glows
Vacancy — the highway knows
Vacancy — I'll leave it on
A room for you when you are gone
(vacancy... vacancy)

(the sign flickers: VACANCY... VACANCY)
NEON VACANCY — VIVIENNE GRAY · FERAL