THE SECOND TIME HE DIES

style

• highlife
• palm wine guitar
• horn section
• gentle percussion
• male tenor
• warm and wise
• vintage west african production
• uplifting
• west african accent
• warm

the numbers

bpm

112

key

C major

energy

0.71

dance

0.92

valence

0.46

vocal at

5.9s

length

3:26

language

En

lyrics

(the second time)

There is a crack under the bridge that has been there since June
And it is getting longer by about a thumb a year
And the man in Kumasi says he can maybe hold it
And maybe is the word that keeps me up at night

The second time he dies (the second time)
That is what it is, the second time
When the neck goes, the second time
The second time

The second time he dies, he dies, the second time he dies
Thirty-one years of a hand is held in a piece of wood
The second time he dies, he dies, the second time he dies
And wood does not last and I know that and I know that

My son is nine. He plays it badly. I let him play it badly.
Everybody says I should stop him, keep it safe, put it away.
A guitar in a case is just a shape. My father told me that.
(BAND RETURNS)

The second time he dies, he dies, the second time he dies
Thirty-one years of a hand is held in a piece of wood
The second time he dies, he dies, the second time he dies
And wood does not last and I know that and I know that

(let him play it...)