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Ravi Chandran

The Fourth Song

Wedding singer for a decade who knows exactly when a room is about to turn

style

  • baila
  • electronic pop
  • tropical percussion
  • synth brass
  • male tenor
  • cheerful and quick
  • danceable
  • island production
  • sri lankan accent
  • wedding hall ambience

the numbers

bpm
129
key
C major
energy
0.69
dance
0.96
valence
0.59
vocal at
3.2s
length
2:37
language
Si

lyrics

(hoy!)

First song they are polite, second song they are watching
Third song the aunties decide whether tonight exists
And the fourth song is the whole marriage, honestly
(the whole marriage!)
Get it wrong and they will remember for thirty years

I have a list of four hundred fourth songs (four hundred)
Sorted by region, age, and how drunk the father is

The fourth song, the fourth song
Where a room decides to be happy or to leave
The fourth song, the fourth song
I have never once got it wrong and I am tired

A man asked me last week if I ever play for myself
I said yes, in the car, on the drive home, in silence
He laughed. He thought it was a joke. It is not a joke.
(not a joke)
Silence is what I play. It is my favourite piece.

Two in the morning, hall empty, chairs stacked.
Ten years. Four hundred fourth songs.
Nobody has ever asked my name twice.
(BRASS RETURNS, BRIGHT)

The fourth song, the fourth song
Where a room decides to be happy or to leave
The fourth song, the fourth song
I have never once got it wrong and I am tired

(the fourth song...)