Nobody Locks It
world-folk ballad; bouzouki tremolo, accordion swells, bowed fiddle, wide strings, hand percussion, upright bass; slow 76 BPM pulse with a broad car-radio singalong lift; rich full arrangement, clear pre-chorus rise, instrumental intro, interlude, and outro, final chorus expanded with layered strings and percussion; deep female contralto, chest-rich and dark, close and forward, strongly sung at full normal volume, four-note one-breath hook entering on the downbeat and recurring eight or more times, chorus climbing to a high point before resolving to the tonic
V6
[Verse 1] There are forty houses on this hill and not one of them locks up the woman at the top has not seen her key since nineteen seventy-one [Pre-Chorus] People from the city ask us why as if we had not thought about it [Chorus] Nobody locks it, nobody locks it that is the whole of the arrangement nobody locks it, nobody locks it and nobody has to nobody locks it [Verse 2] It is not that we are better here and it is not that we are safe it is that the day we start is the day it is a different hill [Pre-Chorus] People from the city ask us why as if we had not thought about it [Chorus] Nobody locks it, nobody locks it that is the whole of the arrangement nobody locks it, nobody locks it and nobody has to nobody locks it
