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WREN HOLLOWAY

STALL AND START

Left a session-musician career because nobody ever asked what she thought

style

  • indie rock
  • jangly guitars
  • propulsive rhythm section
  • expressive female vocal
  • warm analog production
  • american accent
  • bittersweet and driving
  • american accent
  • restless
  • joyful

the numbers

bpm
129
key
G major
energy
0.68
dance
0.95
valence
0.48
vocal at
3.5s
length
2:43
language
En

lyrics

(keys, a seatbelt click)
Okay. Okay okay okay.

Twenty-nine and terrified
Of a Honda in first gear
Dave the instructor only sighed
Mirror, signal, persevere

Everyone I know can drive
(so what, so what)
I was busy being alive

I stall (I stall) and start again
Third try, the clutch forgives
I stall (I stall) and start again
That's how everybody lives
I stall (I stall) and start again
Roundabouts can't hold me now
I stall (I stall) and start again
Look at me go — anyhow!

The L-plate's peeling off the glass
I passed on attempt number three
Drove to the sea and drove right past
Nowhere I would rather be

Dad's atlas rides my passenger seat
(page forty-two)
Every road he circled in ink
I'm coming for you

I stall (I stall) and start again
Third try, the clutch forgives
I stall (I stall) and start again
That's how everybody lives
I stall (I stall) and start again
Roundabouts can't hold me now
I stall (I stall) and start again
Look at me go — anyhow!

(indicator ticking)
Green light... green light... go.