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The Quiet Miles

Track Four

Four friends who record in a garage and refuse to move to a real studio

style

  • indie folk pop
  • acoustic guitar
  • gentle brushed drums
  • male tenor
  • warm and earnest
  • layered harmonies
  • hopeful and unhurried
  • organic production
  • american accent
  • standard radio arrangement

the numbers

bpm
92
key
C major
energy
0.71
dance
0.87
valence
0.34
vocal at
11.7s
length
2:37
language
En

lyrics

(instrumental)

Track four has the heater and a cough and someone's chair
The engineer offered to clean it and we said absolutely not
He thought we were being difficult. We were being accurate.
(being accurate)
That cough is Danny in February and Danny left in June

He didn't leave badly (leave badly)
He got a job, he moved, that's just what happens

Track four
(track four)
Everybody we were, badly recorded, still here
Track four
Clean it up and you delete a person

We could re-record it. We have better gear and a better room.
And it would be technically superior in every measurable way
And Danny would not be in it, and neither would that winter
(that winter)
So it stays, cough and all, forever, that's the decision

He came to a show in August and heard himself cough
in front of four hundred people and cried in the car park.
Then he laughed. Then we all did. That's the record.

Track four
(track four)
Everybody we were, badly recorded, still here
Track four
Clean it up and you delete a person

(track four...)