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AUTUMN COLLINS

THE LONG VERSION

Writes ten-minute songs and refuses to cut them for radio

vex on it

the run

Honest use case: People who feel unheard after a breakup, seeking validation for their specific, detailed memories.

Exhibit:It is that you kept a thing and threw away the person

style

  • narrative singer-songwriter ballad
  • long-form storytelling
  • acoustic guitar into full band
  • restrained verses building to raw cathartic bridge
  • specific detailed lyricism
  • american accent
  • devastating and cinematic
  • american accent
  • devastating
  • detailed

the numbers

bpm
144
key
A# major
energy
0.67
dance
0.93
valence
0.45
vocal at
6.6s
length
3:39
words
269
clichés
0
language
En

most sung: “too” ×10 · “well” ×9 · “version” ×5

shared with the crate: 76 other songs use “door”

lyrics

(the long version)

You kept the green jumper I left at your sister's in October
And I know you kept it because your sister told my friend in June
And it is not the jumper, obviously it is not the jumper
It is that you kept a thing and threw away the person

You told me I was too young to know what I was feeling
I was twenty-one and I knew exactly what I was feeling
You were thirty-four and did not know what you were doing
And only one of us has been forgiven for that by the people around us

I remember it all too well, all too well
The drive, the door, the dog, the exact thing that you said
I remember it all too well, all too well
And you have told your friends a version where I was difficult

You said you would call in the spring. I want to be clear.
It is not that you did not call. It is that you said you would.

And I am not asking for an apology, I stopped waiting in 2021
I am asking for you to remember it the way it was
Not the kind version, not the tired version, the real one
Where a grown man let a girl of twenty-one carry all of it

I remember it all too well, all too well
The drive, the door, the dog, the exact thing that you said
I remember it all too well, all too well
And you have told your friends a version where I was difficult

(all too well)