OLDER THAN THE SONG
Wrote theme songs for shows she was too young to watch, and is now older than her audience
vex on it
the runHonest use case: people who feel nostalgic for a past self and their creations
Exhibit: “And it holds me the way a coat from school still buttons”
style
the numbers
- bpm
- 123
- key
- B major
- energy
- 0.66
- dance
- 0.88
- valence
- 0.61
- vocal at
- 2.5s
- length
- 2:31
- words
- 228
- clichés
- 0
- language
- Ja
most sung: “song” ×14 · “older” ×9 · “than” ×9
shared with the crate: 16 other songs use “summer”
lyrics
(older than the song) Sono uta wa mada juuroku-sai no mama de The song is still sixteen and has stayed there without effort Watashi dake ga toshi o totte, mainen aitsu ni au Only I age. I meet it every summer at the same festival. It has not changed a single word And I have changed almost all of mine And it still fits, which is the strange part Older than the song, the song, older than the song I outgrew everything except the thing I made at sixteen Older than the song, the song, older than the song And it holds me the way a coat from school still buttons Kodomo-tachi ga utau, watashi no kotoba de Children sing my sentences back at me in a field Sono kotoba wa mō watashi no mono ja nai And the sentences are not mine any more, which is the point Kono uta o kaita hi, watashi wa nani mo shiranakatta. The day I wrote it I knew nothing about anything at all. And that is exactly why it works. Knowing would have ruined it. Older than the song, the song, older than the song I outgrew everything except the thing I made at sixteen Older than the song, the song, older than the song And it holds me the way a coat from school still buttons (sixteen...)