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The Driveway

Records everything twice and mixes both takes on top of each other on purpose

style

  • shoegaze
  • dream pop
  • walls of reverbed guitar
  • buried vocals
  • female alto
  • hazy and distant
  • tape saturation
  • overwhelming beauty
  • american accent
  • extended epic arrangement

the numbers

bpm
96
key
B major
energy
0.70
dance
0.93
valence
0.44
vocal at
7.4s
length
4:12
language
En

lyrics

(instrumental)

The driveway is the clearest thing I own from that year
Not the house, not the room, not anybody's face
Concrete with a crack shaped like a river, and the heat off it
(the heat off it)
I could draw that crack. I could draw it exactly.

Everything with a face has gone soft (gone soft)
Everything with a texture stayed

The driveway
(driveway)
Memory kept the concrete and threw away the people
The driveway
And I've stopped arguing about which was the point

I looked it up on the maps thing, the street view
The crack is still there. Same shape. Sixteen years.
I stared at a photograph of concrete and cried like an idiot
(like an idiot)
Not for you. For the crack. Which is worse or better, unclear.

(clean, close)
I didn't drive there. I could have. It's four hours.
Street view was enough. Street view was almost too much.
(WALL OF GUITARS RETURNS)

The driveway
(driveway)
Memory kept the concrete and threw away the people
The driveway
And I've stopped arguing about which was the point

(the driveway...)