Semitone

style

• shoegaze
• dream pop
• walls of reverbed guitar
• buried vocals
• female alto
• hazy and distant
• tape saturation
• overwhelming beauty
• american accent
• two vocal takes a semitone apart layered

the numbers

bpm

99

key

B major

energy

0.70

dance

0.91

valence

0.44

vocal at

4.5s

length

3:39

language

En

lyrics

(instrumental)

Two takes, one semitone apart, deliberately unfixed
The engineer flagged it eleven times in the notes
I wrote "yes" next to every flag and changed nothing
(changed nothing)
He still thinks it's a mistake. He's a good engineer.

Memory doesn't resolve (doesn't resolve)
So why would the record

Semitone
(semitone)
The distance between what happened and what I kept
Semitone
Close enough to hurt, wrong enough to be true

Your version has a swimming pool, mine has a hose
One of us invented water and I don't know which
We were fourteen. Neither of us was taking notes.
(taking notes)
Two songs, one summer, permanently out of tune

(clean, close)
I played you both takes once. You said the second one.
Of course you did. You would.
(WALL OF GUITARS RETURNS)

Semitone
(semitone)
The distance between what happened and what I kept
Semitone
Close enough to hurt, wrong enough to be true

(semitone...)