Say my name slow
Sings rebetiko melodies over drum machines and considers it a form of haunting
the numbers
- bpm
- 99
- key
- C major
- energy
- 0.74
- dance
- 0.93
- valence
- 0.42
- vocal at
- 4.2s
- length
- 3:57
- language
- Gr
lyrics
You said my name at Monastiraki square Like seawater on stone, with a careful care My tea went cold beside the cracked blue tile You cut one breath apart, then smiled a while In the orange market, under hanging pears You turned my name into a thin prayer I heard it lean, I heard it bend Like a spoon on porcelain at the end Say my name slow Say my name slow Say my name slow Say my name slow Only your mouth knows At Syntagma, your thumb brushed my wrist Past the paper cups and the rain on my list You made three syllables stay in the air While buses hissed by and nobody cared In the bakery line with your salt on my skin You called me softer than I’ve ever been My name came back with the sea in it And every hard edge lost a bit Say my name slow Say my name slow Say my name slow Say my name slow Only your mouth knows At Piraeus, dawn on the ferry rail You say it your way, and I never fail One name, two mouths, one cut of gold I keep that sound where the dark winds fold Say my name slow Say my name slow Say my name slow Say my name slow Only your mouth knows