THE COATS GO ON

style

• theatrical
• anthem
• stadium ballad
• piano and full orchestra
• enormous dynamic build
• belted female vocal
• choir on final chorus
• cinematic strings
• irish accent
• devastating and huge

the numbers

bpm

136

key

A# major

energy

0.65

dance

0.93

valence

0.39

vocal at

4.3s

length

3:52

language

En

lyrics

(the coats)

Somewhere in the second verse a woman finds her sleeve
And a man three rows behind her decides that this is fine
And the sound a theatre makes when it begins to leave
Is paper, and it is the loudest thing I know

And the coats go on
And I sing it the size it was written

You could sing it smaller. Nobody would ever say a word.
You could take the top note out and no one in that room would know.
And you would know, and you would do it again next Tuesday
And in a year you would be somebody who sings things smaller

And the coats go on
And I sing it the size it was written

There is always one. Not always for me. Sometimes for the quiet.
And one is not a small number, one is the entire architecture.
One is what the whole building was constructed to make possible.

And the coats go on
And I sing it the size it was written
And the coats go on
And I give them all of it anyway

(all of it...)