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MARLOWE ASH

THE SHOEBOX

Posts nothing, tours nowhere, and somehow every song leaks before release

style

  • dark bedroom pop
  • alt-pop
  • whispered close female vocal
  • breathy and intimate
  • sub-heavy trap-pop drums
  • detuned guitar
  • hazy reverb
  • melancholic and self-aware
  • american accent
  • aching

the numbers

bpm
92
key
C# major
energy
0.73
dance
0.86
valence
0.34
vocal at
2.4s
length
1:59
language
En

lyrics

(the shoebox)

Bus timetables from a country he never saw
A map of Spain from nineteen seventy-four
Ferry routes annotated in a careful hand
And not one ticket. Not one. In thirty years.

The shoebox (the shoebox)
Under the bed, the shoebox
He planned it all, the shoebox
The shoebox

The shoebox, the shoebox, the shoebox, the shoebox
He wanted it enough to keep the timetables
The shoebox, the shoebox, the shoebox, the shoebox
And not enough to ever get on anything

Mum said he was happy. She keeps saying he was happy.
And I believe her, and I have his exact hands,
and I have eleven days of drafts on a phone in a drawer.
(BASS RETURNS)

The shoebox, the shoebox, the shoebox, the shoebox
He wanted it enough to keep the timetables
The shoebox, the shoebox, the shoebox, the shoebox
And not enough to ever get on anything

(not one ticket...)
THE SHOEBOX — MARLOWE ASH · FERAL