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Della Rae Hutchins

THE GOOD PLATES

Keeps a notebook of things people said to her and dates them like evidence

style

  • country pop
  • narrative songwriting
  • acoustic guitar
  • subtle banjo
  • warm female vocal
  • clear and storytelling
  • big polished chorus
  • bridge key change
  • radio production
  • southern american drawl

the numbers

bpm
99
key
A# major
energy
0.68
dance
0.93
valence
0.49
vocal at
3.8s
length
3:09
language
En

lyrics

(the good plates)

Momma kept the good plates in a cupboard up too high
For company, for Christmas, for the day that never came
She died in March and we came in and got them down
And every one of them was perfect. Not a chip.

The good plates (the good plates)
Forty years, the good plates
Never once been eaten off, the good plates
The good plates

The good plates, good plates, good plates, good plates
She was saving them for something that never arrived
The good plates, good plates, good plates, good plates
So we ate off them Tuesday and we cried

(key change up)
I use them now. For cereal. For toast. For nothing days.
My sister thinks it's morbid and I think it's the opposite.
A plate that's never used is just a plate that's being wasted.

The good plates, good plates, good plates, good plates
She was saving them for something that never arrived
The good plates, good plates, good plates, good plates
So we ate off them Tuesday and we cried

(the good plates...)