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Sinead Rourke

The Names

Writes exactly what happened and changes only the names, and sometimes not even those

style

  • singer-songwriter
  • folk pop
  • fingerpicked acoustic guitar
  • minimal strings
  • female alto
  • close and unguarded
  • intimate room sound
  • honest
  • irish accent
  • extended arrangement

the numbers

bpm
162
key
A# major
energy
0.71
dance
0.93
valence
0.27
vocal at
2.0s
length
2:58
language
En

lyrics

(instrumental)

I change the names, that's the one rule I keep
Sometimes I change them badly, one letter, obvious
And everybody involved knows exactly who they are
(who they are)
Which makes the changing a courtesy rather than a disguise

My brother asked me not to write about it (about it)
So I didn't. That's the only one I've ever left.

The names, the names
Changed enough to be polite, not enough to lie
The names, the names
Everybody hears their own and no one says

A woman came up in Cork and said "song four is me"
It wasn't. It was somebody who'd never heard it.
I said "yeah" because what she needed wasn't accuracy
(wasn't accuracy)
That's the strangest part of this job nobody warns you about

The one about my brother exists. It's finished.
It's in a drawer and it will stay in a drawer.
That's the only promise I've made about any of this.

The names, the names
Changed enough to be polite, not enough to lie
The names, the names
Everybody hears their own and no one says

(the names...)