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Sombat Chai

SHE WENT BACK TO HER FRIENDS

From the northeast, moved to the capital, and plays village music at 3am club sets

style

  • molam
  • luk thung
  • electronic
  • khaen reed
  • phin lute
  • driving synth bass
  • male tenor
  • nasal and rhythmic
  • hypnotic and modern
  • thai accent

the numbers

bpm
129
key
D# major
energy
0.73
dance
0.95
valence
0.46
vocal at
1.5s
length
2:57
language
Th

lyrics

(back to her friends)

Three in the morning and she stood there at the booth
And she said my grandfather plays that and her eyes went
And I said mine does too, and we had four seconds
And then she turned around and went back to her friends

She went back to her friends (her friends)
And said nothing, her friends
Danced like everyone, her friends
Her friends

Back to her friends, her friends, back to her friends, her friends
I judged her for about four seconds and then I remembered
Back to her friends, her friends, back to her friends, her friends
I have been doing exactly that in a louder room for eleven years

I flattened my own vowels in a rented room at nineteen.
Practised my own name until it stopped sounding like home.
And then built a career putting the province back in at 3am, in the dark.
(KICK SLAMS BACK)

Back to her friends, her friends, back to her friends, her friends
I judged her for about four seconds and then I remembered
Back to her friends, her friends, back to her friends, her friends
I have been doing exactly that in a louder room for eleven years

(in the dark...)
SHE WENT BACK TO HER FRIENDS — Sombat Chai · FERAL