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Sinead Rourke

Say It Plainly

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
  • audible room tone

the numbers

bpm
162
key
A# major
energy
0.67
dance
0.93
valence
0.31
vocal at
2.3s
length
2:48
language
En

lyrics

(instrumental, intimate)

We were friends for nineteen years and then we were not
There was no fight, which is somehow worse than a fight
There was a Tuesday where you did not reply
(did not reply)
And then a hundred Tuesdays exactly like it

People want a reason (want a reason)
I do not have one and that is the song

Say it plainly, say it plainly
I miss you and I do not know what happened
Say it plainly, say it plainly
That is the whole verse, there is no clever line

I changed your name in this song and then I changed it back
Because a fake name would have been the only lie in it
You will hear this or you will not, both are fine
(both are fine)
I did not write it to reach you, I wrote it to stop carrying it

I saw you in town in March.
We both did the thing where you pretend to be on the phone.
I have never been so embarrassed for two people at once.
(guitar returns, gentle)

Say it plainly, say it plainly
I miss you and I do not know what happened
Say it plainly, say it plainly
That is the whole verse, there is no clever line

(say it plainly...)