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NORTHERN EXIT

NIGHT SERVICE

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
  • desperate

the numbers

bpm
136
key
F major
energy
0.71
dance
0.96
valence
0.60
vocal at
2.4s
length
4:04
language
En

lyrics

(motorway hiss, wipers keep time)
Midnight. Full tank. You, by dawn.

I left the city at midnight sharp
Bad coffee and a racing heart
Four hundred miles of cats-eye glow
There's only one way this can go

Every bridge is a green light
(green light)
Every sign says your name tonight

I'm coming north (north!)
I'm coming north (north!)
Put the kettle on, unlock the door
I'm coming north (north!)
I'm coming north — say nothing more
Just be standing at your door

Dawn is bleeding on the hills
I've rehearsed a hundred miles
Sorry first, then everything
Then the question, then the ring

I'm coming north (north!)
I'm coming north (north!)
Put the kettle on, unlock the door
I'm coming north (north!)
I'm coming north — say nothing more

If you say no, I'll idle there
Engine ticking like a prayer
(don't say no, don't say no)

I'm coming north (north!)
I'm coming north (north!)
Put the kettle on, unlock the door
I'm coming north (north!)
I'm coming north!

(north... north...)
(a door opens somewhere)
NIGHT SERVICE — NORTHERN EXIT · FERAL