Two Lines In An Archive
Plays a horn that belonged to a man he never met and feels responsible for it
style
the numbers
- bpm
- 96
- key
- G minor
- energy
- 0.73
- dance
- 0.92
- valence
- 0.44
- vocal at
- 0.3s
- length
- 3:48
- language
- En
lyrics
(instrumental, smooth) I looked him up. Took eleven minutes and a library card. Two lines. Name, instrument, one venue, one year. Nothing about what he sounded like or who he loved (who he loved) A whole man, filed under two lines and a comma His horn has more of him in it (more of him) Than the archive does, and I'm the one holding it Two lines in an archive (two lines) That's the whole official record of a musician Two lines in an archive So the rest of him has to come out of this horn I play things I never learned and don't remember choosing The teacher swore he never taught me that phrase I believe him. Instruments are not innocent objects. (innocent objects) Something got in there before I did. (solo sax, 8 bars, mournful) That's him. I'm fairly sure that one's him. (band returns, gently) Two lines in an archive (two lines) That's the whole official record of a musician Two lines in an archive So the rest of him has to come out of this horn (two lines...)