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MABEL FORTUNE

TABLE ELEVEN

Sings her actual diary at a piano and has been asked to tone it down by three separate labels

style

  • jazz-pop
  • live band
  • walking bass and brass stabs
  • theatrical storytelling vocal
  • funny and desperate by turns
  • big-band swagger with modern drums
  • london accent
  • charismatic and unguarded
  • london accent
  • funny

the numbers

bpm
144
key
F minor
energy
0.66
dance
0.91
valence
0.54
vocal at
3.3s
length
2:44
language
En

lyrics

(table eleven)

They put me on the singles table at my cousin's wedding day
Table eleven, by the kitchen, with a view of nothing much
A man called Colin, two divorcees and a boy of twenty-eight
Who told me about his fantasy league and never once said much

And there's a seating plan somewhere in a folder
Where a woman I have known since I was six
Decided this was where I go

Table eleven, table eleven, by the door beside the fire
Where they put the ones they love but cannot fit in anywhere
I have been to nine of these and I'm not getting any higher
And I have danced with everybody's dad and I don't even care

Colin was quite lovely by dessert, if I am fair
And I gave him a fake number, which says more about me there

The joke's the easy part. The joke is always easy.
The truth is I've been at that table since I was twenty-three
and I've started to suspect that somebody keeps putting me there.
Right. Brass. Back to it.

Table eleven, table eleven, by the door beside the fire
Where they put the ones they love but cannot fit in anywhere
I have been to nine of these and I'm not getting any higher
And I have danced with everybody's dad and I don't even care

(everybody's dad!)
TABLE ELEVEN — MABEL FORTUNE · FERAL