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Sinead Rourke

SAY IT PLAIN

Writes exactly what happened and changes only the names, and sometimes not even those

style

  • singer-songwriter
  • folk pop
  • fingerpicked acoustic guitar
  • minimal strings
  • female alto
  • close and unguarded
  • intimate room sound
  • honest
  • irish accent
  • unguarded

the numbers

bpm
162
key
D major
energy
0.70
dance
0.93
valence
0.32
vocal at
11.7s
length
2:37
language
En

lyrics

(say it plain)

You asked me what I wanted and I said "I don't mind"
Which is the biggest lie I tell, and tell it often
You waited. You just waited. You did not fill it in.
And after ninety seconds something in me softened

Say it plain, say it plain (say it plain)
No metaphor, say it plain
I write for a living and I cannot
Say it plain

Say it plain, say it plain, say it plain, say it plain
I've got four hundred clever ways to not, say it plain
Say it plain, say it plain, say it plain, say it plain
I want you here on Sunday. There. Said plain.

I've written eleven songs about a friendship ending
And not one about a person who arrived
And that says something dreadful about my instincts
That the leaving gets the verses and the staying gets deprived

Nineteen years I mourned. I wrote a record about it.
You've been here two. There's one song. This one.
That ratio is wrong and I'm correcting it starting now.

Say it plain, say it plain, say it plain, say it plain
I've got four hundred clever ways to not, say it plain
Say it plain, say it plain, say it plain, say it plain
I want you here on Sunday. There. Said plain.

(said plain...)