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Baker Lyle

The Drawer

Still plays the eighty-dollar guitar he bought at nineteen and refuses better ones

style

  • blues rock
  • soul
  • gritty electric guitar
  • hammond organ
  • male vocal raspy and powerful
  • live band energy
  • horn stabs
  • roadhouse warmth
  • southern american drawl
  • extended arrangement

the numbers

bpm
99
key
G minor
energy
0.72
dance
0.95
valence
0.58
vocal at
11.5s
length
4:29
language
En

lyrics

(instrumental)

Ninety-six was the year it nearly came apart entirely
I wrote eleven songs about it and never played one
She read the lyrics once, on paper, at the kitchen table
(kitchen table)
And she said "put it away" and I put it away

Twenty-nine years in the drawer (in the drawer)
Both of us know exactly which drawer

The drawer
(the drawer)
The best writing I ever did and nobody hears it
The drawer
Some songs are for one person and she said no

People ask what my best song is and I have an answer
It's track three of a record that does not exist
About a Tuesday in November when I nearly left
(nearly left)
And she is right that the world does not need it

(solo guitar, imperfect)
She asked last year if I still had them.
I said yes. She said good.
That's the whole conversation. Twenty-nine years.
(BAND BACK IN)

The drawer
(the drawer)
The best writing I ever did and nobody hears it
The drawer
Some songs are for one person and she said no

(the drawer...)