The Back Page

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

D# major

energy

0.67

dance

0.93

valence

0.59

vocal at

5.3s

length

2:57

language

En

lyrics

(instrumental)

The back page is for good things and it is nearly empty
Eleven lines in nine years, which tells you what I collect
I started it as an experiment and it has been a failure
(been a failure)
Turns out I am extremely good at only one kind of memory

Line four is a woman in Tulsa (in Tulsa)
Who said "you'll be fine" and meant it and did not know me

The back page
(back page)
Nine years and eleven kindnesses that I could not forget
The back page
Everybody else fills the front, I've read it enough

Line eleven went in last Tuesday and it is about my sister
Who drove eight hours and made bad soup and did not advise me
It took me thirty-one years to write down something good
(something good)
And the notebook is nearly full of the other kind

(key change up)
Next notebook starts at the back.
That's the whole plan. That's the only resolution I've made.

The back page
(back page)
Nine years and eleven kindnesses that I could not forget
The back page
Everybody else fills the front, I've read it enough

(back page...)