Voice Note
Mother stayed in Lagos
style
the numbers
- bpm
- 108
- key
- D# minor
- energy
- 0.74
- dance
- 0.95
- valence
- 0.46
- vocal at
- 8.2s
- length
- 3:02
- language
- En
lyrics
(mmm-mm) Three minutes twelve seconds, my auntie, sent at 6am Half advice, half accusation, all of it in Yoruba I understand about seventy percent and pretend to ninety (pretend to ninety) The thirty percent I miss is probably the important part I play it on the bus and people look (people look) Because I am laughing at something no one else can hear Voice note, voice note Three minutes of a country in my ear Voice note, voice note I save every single one and never reply There's a folder on my phone with two hundred of them Some from people who are gone now, and I cannot delete Their voices are more them than any photograph (any photograph) A photo is how someone looked. A voice note is how they were. When Mama goes I will have four hundred of these And I will not be able to listen to a single one (let it breathe) Voice note, voice note Three minutes of a country in my ear Voice note, voice note I save every single one and never reply (mmm-mm, ah-ah)