THE SOUP POT

style

• mandopop
• lush piano ballad
• cinematic strings
• controlled female vocal
• wide reverb
• emotional restraint then release
• mandarin accent
• tender and grand
• mandarin accent
• grieving

the numbers

bpm

136

key

A# major

energy

0.66

dance

0.94

valence

0.43

vocal at

9.7s

length

3:58

language

Ma

lyrics

(a lid settles)
(nainai...)

Your soup pot keeps its place on the stove
A ring of clean where the burner glowed
I can't cook in it, can't put it away
It remembers what I can't say
(man man chi...)

Eight herbs, never written down
The scent has left this town
(never written down)

Wo hui lai le, wo hui lai le
I still say it to the hall
Wo hui lai le, wo hui lai le
No answer comes to catch my call
(I'm home... I'm home...)

I found your glasses in the rice tin
You hid things where your hands had been
A red envelope with my name
Saved for a spring that never came
(nainai... nainai...)

Wo hui lai le, wo hui lai le
I still say it to the hall
Wo hui lai le, wo hui lai le
No answer comes to catch my call
(I'm home...)

Tonight I fill the pot with water
Just to hear it start to mutter
If steam can carry, let it lift
Man man chi — my only gift
(man man chi)

Wo hui lai le, wo hui lai le
I still say it to the hall
Wo hui lai le, wo hui lai le
No answer comes to catch my call
(I'm home... I'm home...)

(the burner clicks, catches)
(wo hui lai le...)