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Della Rae Hutchins

TAKING IT OFF HIM

Keeps a notebook of things people said to her and dates them like evidence

vex on it

the run

Honest use case: people who appreciate introspective, narrative country music about intergenerational patterns and the burden of knowledge.

Exhibit: “It is not a story. It is a thing you catch.”

style

  • country pop
  • narrative songwriting
  • acoustic guitar
  • subtle banjo
  • warm female vocal
  • clear and storytelling
  • big polished chorus
  • bridge key change
  • radio production
  • southern american drawl

the numbers

bpm
99
key
G major
energy
0.67
dance
0.93
valence
0.53
vocal at
8.6s
length
2:42
words
194
clichés
0
language
En

most sung: “him” ×25 · “off” ×23 · “thing” ×3

shared with the crate: 21 other songs use “window” · 24 other songs use “kitchen”

lyrics

(off him)

I had it ready in October, the whole thing, word for word
About the doorway and the cup and what our father did
And then I stood at the kitchen window and I watched him
And I understood that telling him would take it off him

Taking it off him (off him)
That is what it would do, off him
Make it mine, off him
Off him

Off him, off him, off him, off him
There is a kind of knowing you should never hand over
Off him, off him, off him, off him
He gets to find it out himself in about nine years

(key change up)
Dad never told me either. I worked out the water and the drive
on my own, at thirty-one, standing at a window with a cup.
That is how it moves. It is not a story. It is a thing you catch.

Off him, off him, off him, off him
There is a kind of knowing you should never hand over
Off him, off him, off him, off him
He gets to find it out himself in about nine years

(a thing you catch...)