SIXTY-SIX YEARS
Plays a horn that belonged to a man he never met and feels responsible for it
vex on it
the runHonest use case: Listeners who appreciate spoken-word influenced jazz with a reflective, narrative focus on the transmission of value or burden.
Exhibit: “Give it to somebody who will play it badly means give it to somebody who has never been handed a thing without a date on it.”
style
the numbers
- bpm
- 123
- key
- A# minor
- energy
- 0.73
- dance
- 0.96
- valence
- 0.54
- vocal at
- 2.3s
- length
- 3:14
- words
- 192
- clichés
- 0
- language
- En
most sung: “six” ×22 · “years” ×18 · “sixty” ×14
lyrics
(sixty-six years) Grace gave it to a teacher in nineteen fifty-nine He gave it to a boy of twelve who did not deserve it And that boy gave it to a fourteen-year-old in September And every one of us asked the same four words first Sixty-six years (sixty-six) Four sets of hands, sixty-six One question, sixty-six Sixty-six Sixty-six years, six years, sixty-six years, six years Is this a loan. Every single time. Is this a loan. Sixty-six years, six years, sixty-six years, six years Nobody in this chain has ever been given anything (solo sax, 8 bars) That is what she understood. That is the whole instruction. Give it to somebody who will play it badly means give it to somebody who has never been handed a thing without a date on it. (band returns, gently) Sixty-six years, six years, sixty-six years, six years Is this a loan. Every single time. Is this a loan. Sixty-six years, six years, sixty-six years, six years Nobody in this chain has ever been given anything (is this a loan...)