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Sinead Rourke

The Drawer Song

Writes exactly what happened and changes only the names, and sometimes not even those

style

  • singer-songwriter
  • folk pop
  • fingerpicked acoustic guitar
  • minimal strings
  • female alto
  • close and unguarded
  • intimate room sound
  • honest
  • irish accent
  • extended arrangement

the numbers

bpm
108
key
D major
energy
0.69
dance
0.91
valence
0.28
vocal at
4.6s
length
2:47
language
En

lyrics

(instrumental)

My brother asked me not to write it and I said okay
That was six years ago and I have kept it, entirely
It is the only promise in my career I have not broken
(have not broken)
Everyone else got a song. He got a silence. That's the gift.

It's written (it's written)
Of course it's written. I finished it in a week.

The drawer song
(drawer song)
The best thing I've made and nobody will hear it
The drawer song
That's not a tragedy, that's what a promise costs

People say I'm brave for writing what I write
I'm not brave, I'm just missing whatever stops other people
The actual brave thing was one week in 2020
(in 2020)
Finishing a song and then not doing anything with it

He knows it exists. I told him. That was probably unkind.
He said "that's alright, as long as it stays there."
So it stays there. And this is a song about a song. Which is allowed.

The drawer song
(drawer song)
The best thing I've made and nobody will hear it
The drawer song
That's not a tragedy, that's what a promise costs

(stays there...)