NINE TO NINE

style

• emotional pop anthem
• enormous cracked belted female vocal with distinctive vibrato
• huge dynamic leap from whispered verse to roaring chorus
• piano and stadium drums
• raw and unpolished at the top
• australian accent
• devastating and enormous
• australian accent
• devastating
• enormous

the numbers

bpm

123

key

A# major

energy

0.67

dance

0.91

valence

0.48

vocal at

1.8s

length

2:43

words

199

clichés

0

language

En

most sung: “i'm” ×6 · “nine” ×6 · “hold” ×4

shared with the crate: 90 other songs use “light” · 34 other songs use “phone”

lyrics

I am very good at daytime, I have practised it for years
The coat, the laugh, the emails, and the timing of the smile
And nobody in that building has ever seen my tears
And I have kept it that way carefully for quite a while

And the light goes and the other one gets up
And walks around inside me like it owns the place

I'm alive from nine to nine and then I'm someone else's problem
I'm the ceiling and the swinging and the drop I can't see under
I can hold it in an office, I can hold it on a phone
But at nine o'clock it takes me and it takes me on my own

My sister asked me straight out and I said "not really, no"
Not really is a sentence if you say it fast and go

I'm alive from nine to nine and then I'm someone else's problem
I'm the ceiling and the swinging and the drop I can't see under
I can hold it in an office, I can hold it on a phone
But at nine o'clock it takes me and it takes me on my own

(on my own)