OUTSIDE YOUR MOTHER'S HOUSE
Writes ten-minute songs and refuses to cut them for radio
vex on it
after hoursHonest use case: people who have experienced a relationship where they were kept at arm's length, or who have had their feelings dismissed by an ex.
Exhibit: “And a girl of twenty-one will build a house out of a brick and spend her twenties working out there wasn't one to reach”
style
the numbers
- bpm
- 172
- key
- A# major
- energy
- 0.68
- dance
- 0.95
- valence
- 0.42
- vocal at
- 9.2s
- length
- 3:43
- words
- 242
- clichés
- 0
- language
- En
most sung: “outside” ×10 · “house” ×10 · “mother's” ×9
shared with the crate: 37 other songs use “car”
lyrics
(outside) You parked outside your mother's house and left the engine going And you said it would be easier if I stayed inside the car And I sat there for an hour with the heater blowing And she never knew I came and never knew who we were I met your friends in April in a pub you chose in advance Far enough from anyone that either of us knew And I thought that it was thrilling, I thought it was romance And I was twenty-one and it was neither, it was you Outside your mother's house, outside your mother's house Eleven months of doorsteps and I never went inside Outside your mother's house, outside your mother's house And you told your friends I left, and technically I did I drove past it in October. There's a different car out front. And I sat there for a minute like an idiot and went It's not that you were cruel, you were never cruel, that's the trick You were reasonable and warm and always slightly out of reach And a girl of twenty-one will build a house out of a brick And spend her twenties working out there wasn't one to reach Outside your mother's house, outside your mother's house Eleven months of doorsteps and I never went inside Outside your mother's house, outside your mother's house And you told your friends I left, and technically I did (technically I did)