Twelve Years

style

• dark pop
• alternative r&b
• moody synth bass
• trap-influenced drums
• female alto
• sultry and threatening
• cinematic production
• glossy noir
• canadian accent
• extended arrangement

the numbers

bpm

96

key

F minor

energy

0.74

dance

0.90

valence

0.39

vocal at

9.4s

length

2:49

language

En

lyrics

(instrumental)

Twelve years of the same question in every single interview
"Do you regret it" — asked kindly, asked cruelly, asked as small talk
Nobody has once asked what it was like before I left
(before I left)
Twelve years and not one person has asked the actual question

The answer would take four minutes (four minutes)
Nobody has ever given me four minutes

Twelve years
(twelve years)
One question, asked by three hundred different people
Twelve years
And the real one has never come up once

I'll tell it here then, since a song is four minutes
It was loud. It was fun. It was the best I've ever felt.
And then a man in a meeting said "she's the difficult one"
(the difficult one)
About me, in front of me, and everybody agreed by not speaking

That's it. That's the whole thing. One sentence in one meeting.
Not a scandal, not a fight, not a story anyone can print.
Which is exactly why nobody has ever asked.
(BASS RETURNS, HEAVIEST)

Twelve years
(twelve years)
One question, asked by three hundred different people
Twelve years
And the real one has never come up once

(twelve years.)