SIXTY YEARS OF GUESSING
Women traditionally do not lead gnawa ceremonies, and she leads anyway
vex on it
the runHonest use case: Listeners who appreciate deep, personal narratives within a hypnotic musical structure, willing to engage with a longer track.
Exhibit: “And then I played it her way, wrong, and that one was better.”
style
the numbers
- bpm
- 108
- key
- F minor
- energy
- 0.72
- dance
- 0.95
- valence
- 0.55
- vocal at
- 1.3s
- length
- 7:59
- words
- 183
- clichés
- 0
- language
- Ar
most sung: “sixty” ×18 · “years” ×18 · “her” ×7
shared with the crate: 24 other songs use “kitchen”
lyrics
(sixty years) She was never allowed inside the room where it was done She learned it through a wall and from her mother's humming And she taught me in a kitchen with her hands on a table And bar sixteen was wrong because she had to guess Sixty years of guessing (guessing) Through a wall, guessing And she was close, guessing Guessing Sixty years, sixty years, sixty years, sixty years An old man corrected one bar and gave me back a lineage Sixty years, sixty years, sixty years, sixty years She was almost right and nobody ever told her so I played it correctly for her grave in November. The right bar. Which is a stupid thing to do and I did it anyway. And then I played it her way, wrong, and that one was better. (GUEMBRI AND QRAQEB RETURN, HYPNOTIC BUILD) Sixty years, sixty years, sixty years, sixty years An old man corrected one bar and gave me back a lineage Sixty years, sixty years, sixty years, sixty years She was almost right and nobody ever told her so (her way...)