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Baker Lyle

THE DRAWER STAYS SHUT

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
  • warm

the numbers

bpm
92
key
G minor
energy
0.74
dance
0.94
valence
0.52
vocal at
4.2s
length
3:55
language
En

lyrics

(stays shut)

Eleven songs about a year we nearly lost
Best writing I have ever done, by a distance
She read them at the kitchen table in ninety-six
And said "put it away" and I have kept my word

Stays shut, stays shut (stays shut)
Twenty-nine years, stays shut
Nobody hears it, stays shut
Stays shut

The drawer stays shut, the drawer stays shut
The best thing that I made, the drawer stays shut
The drawer stays shut, the drawer stays shut
Some love is not being someone's material

(solo guitar, imperfect)
Every man I know released the album about the hard year.
Every one of those women hears it in shops. For decades.
She looked at that and said no. And she was right.
(BAND BACK IN)

The drawer stays shut, the drawer stays shut
The best thing that I made, the drawer stays shut
The drawer stays shut, the drawer stays shut
Some love is not being someone's material

(stays shut...)