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Chen Yiwen

SLOW SIGNAL

Famous for one wedding song she now cannot escape and did not write about love

style

  • mandopop
  • lush piano ballad
  • cinematic strings
  • controlled female vocal
  • wide reverb
  • emotional restraint then release
  • mandarin accent
  • tender and grand
  • mandarin accent
  • aching

the numbers

bpm
136
key
A# major
energy
0.66
dance
0.93
valence
0.47
vocal at
11.0s
length
3:57
language
Ma

lyrics

(a ringtone, far away)
(mm...)

Your kitchen glows inside my phone
Eight time zones from where I sit alone
Mama tilts the steamer low
Chi fan le ma? — she wants to know

The picture freezes mid-goodbye
(bie gua... don't hang up)
Your smile hangs still; so do I

Wait for me — wo hui hui jia
Wait for me — wo hui hui jia
Keep my chopsticks in the drawer
Wait for me — wo hui hui jia
Wait for me — one springtime more
I'll be knocking at our door

I mailed you scarves; you mailed me tea
Bricks of jasmine, wrapped carefully
The postmark takes eleven days
Love arrives in slow relays

Wait for me — wo hui hui jia
Wait for me — wo hui hui jia
Keep my chopsticks in the drawer
Wait for me — wo hui hui jia
Wait for me — one springtime more

Ba just asks about my sleep
That's the deepest word he keeps
Man man lai, he tells the phone
Slow, slow — like love, like home

Wait for me — wo hui hui jia
Wait for me — wo hui hui jia
Keep my chopsticks in the drawer
Wait for me — wo hui hui jia
I'll be knocking at our door

(wo hui hui jia...)
(the call ends softly)