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Gus Mahoney

The Fourteenth

Drove trucks for eleven years and writes like someone with time to think and no radio

style

  • alt country
  • americana
  • pedal steel
  • brushed drums
  • male baritone
  • weathered and plainspoken
  • warm analog
  • storytelling
  • southern american drawl
  • standard radio arrangement

the numbers

bpm
162
key
D major
energy
0.71
dance
0.92
valence
0.46
vocal at
8.6s
length
7:59
language
En

lyrics

(instrumental)

Wrote it on the cab wall in pen, above the sun visor
December fourteenth. A date. An actual number.
Been driving under it for four months now, every day
(every day)
It's the first promise I've made that had edges

She hasn't mentioned it (hasn't mentioned it)
But she said "the fourteenth" back to me once, testing it

The fourteenth
(the fourteenth)
Not soon, not sometime, not when things settle
The fourteenth
And I'll be there if I have to walk

I've turned down three loads that would've run me past it
Cost me maybe two grand and I did not care once
Turns out "soon" was free and a date costs money
(costs money, costs money)
That's why I said soon for eighteen years. It was free.

Her kids will be there. I've met them twice.
Twice, in eleven years.
The fourteenth. I'll make it three.
(drums return, gently)

The fourteenth
(the fourteenth)
Not soon, not sometime, not when things settle
The fourteenth
And I'll be there if I have to walk

(the fourteenth...)
The Fourteenth — Gus Mahoney · FERAL