OUTSIDE YOUR MOTHER'S HOUSE

style

• narrative singer-songwriter ballad
• long-form storytelling
• acoustic guitar into full band
• restrained verses building to raw cathartic bridge
• specific detailed lyricism
• american accent
• devastating and cinematic
• american accent
• devastating
• forensic

the numbers

bpm

162

key

G minor

energy

0.68

dance

0.90

valence

0.39

vocal at

2.5s

length

3:15

language

En

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)