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VIVIENNE GRAY

THE QUARRY

Sings like a woman narrating her own film, and the film does not end well

style

  • cinematic americana
  • slow orchestral swell
  • reverbed breathy female vocal
  • tremolo guitar
  • strings and brass
  • sad glamour
  • sixties film-score production
  • american accent
  • languid and devastating
  • american accent

the numbers

bpm
152
key
B minor
energy
0.72
dance
0.94
valence
0.34
vocal at
10.9s
length
4:48
language
En

lyrics

(car doors open on the ridge)
(oh... oh...)

The town shut down the digging site
The rain moved in and stayed all night
Now water sleeps on rusted cranes
We park above what still remains

You say we're leaving in the fall
(in the fall)
We both know fall won't come at all

Don't look down, love, don't look down
The deep keeps everything this town let drown
Don't look down, love, don't look down
Just float with me above the crown
(above it all)
Don't look down

Your dress is drying on the door
The radio plays through songs from before
A hundred feet of green below
Machines that never got to go

Don't look down, love, don't look down
The deep keeps everything this town let drown
Don't look down, love, don't look down
Just float with me above the crown

Everything heavy finds the floor
(the floor, the floor)
We're not heavy yet — not sure
Hold my ankle, hold my wrist
We're the last things on the list

Don't look down, love, don't look down
Don't look down, love, don't look down

(two shirts left on the ridge)
(oh... oh...)