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Della Rae Hutchins

The Notebook

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
0.68
dance
0.95
valence
0.57
vocal at
6.6s
length
2:36
language
En

lyrics

(instrumental)

Spiral bound, ninety-nine cents, bought it at a gas station
Because I needed somewhere to put what people said
Not the compliments, those evaporate anyway
(evaporate anyway)
The other ones. The ones said gently. Those keep.

My mother found it once (found it once)
Read four pages and never mentioned it again

The notebook, the notebook
Everything this town spent on me, itemised
The notebook, the notebook
I'm not keeping score, I'm keeping records

There's a page for the teacher who laughed at the word "career"
There's a page for the boy, obviously, there's several
And there's a page in the back I started in Nashville
(started in Nashville)
That one's all the good things. It's the shortest page.

(key change up)
I'm going to fill that back page next.
That's the whole plan. That's the entire ambition.

The notebook, the notebook
Everything this town spent on me, itemised
The notebook, the notebook
I'm not keeping score, I'm keeping records

(the notebook...)