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Della Rae Hutchins

THE LONG WAY HOME

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
D# major
energy
0.66
dance
0.95
valence
0.53
vocal at
6.2s
length
2:22
language
En

lyrics

(the long way)

There's a turning by the water that adds twenty minutes on
And I have taken it for eleven years, coming back
Not for the view, and not because the main road's slow
But because I need the extra twenty minutes to arrive

The long way home (the long way)
I always take the long way home
Twenty minutes to become myself, the long way
The long way

The long way home, the long way, the long way home
Nobody in that house needs the version off the plane
The long way home, the long way, the long way home
So I drive round the water and I put the right one on

(key change up)
He knows. Of course he knows. He's timed it to the minute.
He puts the kettle on when I'm at the water, not the door.
Eleven years and neither of us has ever said it out loud.

The long way home, the long way, the long way home
Nobody in that house needs the version off the plane
The long way home, the long way, the long way home
So I drive round the water and I put the right one on

(the long way...)