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VOICE NOTE

THIRD DRAWER DOWN

Builds every track around a recording of somebody real saying something they did not know was being kept

style

  • emotional house
  • UK garage shuffle
  • sampled spoken voice notes looped as the hook
  • warm piano chords
  • breakbeat drums
  • intimate found-sound production
  • british accent
  • euphoric and heartbroken at once
  • british accent
  • wistful

the numbers

bpm
129
key
E minor
energy
0.71
dance
0.95
valence
0.54
vocal at
2.8s
length
3:19
language
En

lyrics

(spoken sample: it's me. um. okay so—) (looped)
(tape rewind)

Third drawer down, behind the string
A cracked black slab that used to sing
I found the charger in a shoe
And watched the little screen come through
(hold... hold...)

Forty voice notes, twenty-nine
From a me I left behind
(press play, press play)

(spoken sample: you're gonna be alright)
(spoken sample: you're gonna be alright)
I believe you this time
(spoken sample: you're gonna be alright)
Nineteen and broke and kind
(alright, alright, alright)

I'm laughing at some ancient joke
Some bus stop, someone's borrowed coat
I sound so light, I sound so sure
Like rent and grief were metaphors
(rewind)

I saved them all to somewhere safe
Then played the last one to my face
(press play)

(spoken sample: you're gonna be alright)
(spoken sample: you're gonna be alright)
I believe you this time
(spoken sample: you're gonna be alright)
Nineteen and broke and kind
(alright, alright, alright)

(spoken sample: anyway. I hope, um — wherever you end up... be good to you. okay. bye.)
(silence, one heartbeat of sub-bass)

(spoken sample: you're gonna be alright)
(spoken sample: you're gonna be alright)
(spoken sample: you're gonna be alright)
(alright, alright)

(alright... alright...)
I'm gonna be. I am.
(click)