THE FOURTEENTH
Drove trucks for eleven years and writes like someone with time to think and no radio
style
the numbers
- bpm
- 172
- key
- A# major
- energy
- 0.69
- dance
- 0.95
- valence
- 0.43
- vocal at
- 3.0s
- length
- 3:49
- language
- En
lyrics
(the fourteenth) Wrote it on the cab wall in pen above the visor December fourteenth, in numbers, not in words Been driving underneath it for four months now And it is the first promise I have made with edges The fourteenth (the fourteenth) Not soon, the fourteenth A date has got a shape, the fourteenth The fourteenth The fourteenth, the fourteenth, the fourteenth I said a number out loud and the world did not end The fourteenth, the fourteenth, the fourteenth Eighteen years of "soon" and then a date Her kids are Maren and Wyatt, I've known that for six years And used their names precisely never, not one time I've been saying "the kids" like a stranger in a doorway And that ends on the fourteenth, along with the rest I turned down three loads that would have run me past it. Two grand. Didn't think about it for one second. Soon was free. That's why I said it for eighteen years. (drums return, gently) The fourteenth, the fourteenth, the fourteenth I said a number out loud and the world did not end The fourteenth, the fourteenth, the fourteenth Eighteen years of "soon" and then a date (the fourteenth...)