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Sprinkler, 1999

Records everything twice and mixes both takes on top of each other on purpose

style

  • shoegaze
  • dream pop
  • walls of reverbed guitar
  • buried vocals
  • female alto
  • hazy and distant
  • tape saturation
  • overwhelming beauty
  • american accent
  • standard radio arrangement

the numbers

bpm
99
key
E major
energy
0.68
dance
0.93
valence
0.44
vocal at
3.4s
length
3:22
language
En

lyrics

(instrumental, overwhelming)

The sprinkler hit the fence in the same spot every time
Made a dark patch shaped like nothing anybody would name
I remember that and not what anyone said
(anyone said)
Memory is a bad archivist with excellent taste

Your house is a colour now (a colour)
Not a shape, not a door, just a warm bad photograph

Sprinkler, ninety-nine
(ninety-nine)
The whole summer in one repeating sound
Sprinkler, ninety-nine
I have never been that bored or that happy

We did nothing for eleven weeks and it was everything
Concrete, hose water, the smell of hot fence paint
Somebody's radio, somebody's mother calling
(mother calling)
I would give a year of now for one hour of that

(clean, close, no reverb)
I looked the street up. It's all still there.
I didn't go.
(WALL OF GUITARS RETURNS)

Sprinkler, ninety-nine
(ninety-nine)
The whole summer in one repeating sound
Sprinkler, ninety-nine
I have never been that bored or that happy

(ninety-nine...)