The Arrow

style

• theatrical dance pop
• maximalist electropop
• huge four-on-floor
• dramatic synth stabs
• powerful female belt
• operatic and camp
• layered vocal stacks
• glitter and menace
• american accent
• standard radio arrangement

the numbers

bpm

129

key

F minor

energy

0.71

dance

0.95

valence

0.56

vocal at

3.6s

length

2:45

language

En

lyrics

(darling)

Nine years of my mother describing me as "creative"
Which is what you say when you will not say the thing
She came to a show in year seven and left at the interval
(the interval)
I did not write about it. Until now, obviously.

Then a newspaper printed a photograph (a photograph)
And she drew an arrow on it in biro

The arrow
(the arrow)
Two centimetres of blue ink and a lifetime
The arrow
She wrote "my daughter" and I have not been the same

I have been given awards by people who understood me instantly
None of them landed like a biro on a clipping
Understanding is cheap, darling, recognition is not
(is not, is not)
And recognition from the one who looked away is the whole thing

(exposed, no production)
She still doesn't like the music.
She just likes that it's mine.
Turns out that was always the ask.
(EXPLOSION BACK)

The arrow
(the arrow)
Two centimetres of blue ink and a lifetime
The arrow
She wrote "my daughter" and I have not been the same

(darling.)