Small Talk

style

• dark bedroom pop
• alt-pop
• whispered close female vocal
• breathy and intimate
• sub-heavy trap-pop drums
• detuned guitar
• hazy reverb
• melancholic and self-aware
• american accent
• extended arrangement

the numbers

bpm

108

key

E major

energy

0.73

dance

0.94

valence

0.36

vocal at

4.6s

length

2:55

language

En

lyrics

(mm)

Somebody asked how my weekend was and I said "good, yours?"
And that was correct, that was the right answer, that worked
Then I thought about it for six hours afterwards
(six hours)
Whether "good" was too flat, whether I should have offered a detail

There is a version of this where I am normal (where I am normal)
She exists, I've met her, she comes out at about 1am

Small talk
(small talk)
Four words that take a full day to recover from
Small talk
And everyone else just walks away and forgets

The trick apparently is that nobody is listening that hard
Everybody's running their own six-hour post-mortem
Which should be comforting and is somehow much worse
(much worse)
A whole species of people replaying a lift conversation

I said "good, yours" and she said "yeah, fine".
That's it. That's the entire transcript.
I could recite it. I have. Several times.
(BASS RETURNS)

Small talk
(small talk)
Four words that take a full day to recover from
Small talk
And everyone else just walks away and forgets

(good, yours...)