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Della Rae Hutchins

Page Eleven

Keeps a notebook of things people said to her and dates them like evidence

style

  • country pop
  • narrative songwriting
  • acoustic guitar
  • subtle banjo
  • warm female vocal
  • clear and storytelling
  • big polished chorus
  • bridge key change
  • radio production
  • southern american drawl

the numbers

bpm
99
key
F major
energy
0.67
dance
0.95
valence
0.59
vocal at
1.3s
length
2:54
language
En

lyrics

(instrumental)

Page eleven has the thing your father said at graduation
He does not remember, I have asked, he genuinely does not
That is the most generous explanation and I have accepted it
(accepted it)
People do damage on the way to somewhere else

I keep it because forgetting is a luxury (a luxury)
And I could not afford it at seventeen

Page eleven
(page eleven)
Blue ink, one line, a date, and a whole decade
Page eleven
I did not stay small and here's the paperwork

I could burn it, people keep suggesting that
Very freeing, they say, very healthy, let it go
But the notebook is not the wound, it is the evidence
(the evidence)
And I did not survive it just to lose the receipts

(key change up)
I'll show him one day. Not to hurt him.
Just so somebody else remembers it happened.

Page eleven
(page eleven)
Blue ink, one line, a date, and a whole decade
Page eleven
I did not stay small and here's the paperwork

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