[Key: B-flat minor, lifting to D-flat major in choruses | Mode: Aeolian verses, Ionian chorus lift | Chords: Verse Bbm-Gb-Db-Ab, Chorus Db-Ab-Bbm-Gb | BPM: 172, half-time bridge | Style: Sad Boi Folktronica, South-London electronic-folk, minimal liquid drum and bass | Vocal: High male tenor, Estuary English, dry mouth-close phone-call delivery, nervous to cocky to cracked] [Solo Instrumental Start, 2 bars, dry fingerpicked nylon, faint Rhodes double-stab ring motif] [Hesitant Verse 1, 16 bars, B-flat minor, nervous halting tenor, small silent gaps after each question as if listening] Hiya... yeah, it's me, sorry, is it late? I never checked the clock I was gonna send a text But I typed it out and binned it half a dozen times So... thought I'd talk No, nothing's wrong... Ha, no, I know... I'm rambling on a bit, It's just the kettle's on / the telly's on / I've been sat here ages working up to this Anyway... how's your week? ...Yeah? ...Yeah, mine's been More or less the same Bus was late / the boss was in a state / and I nearly said your name... Wait, no, I mean... / I mean I thought of you / that's all In passing / on the way Right. Okay. Sorry. Let me just get out what I rang to say [Lifted Chorus, 8 bars, D-flat major lift, airy head-voice rising to falsetto, chopped falsetto fragments in gaps] So would you maybe fancy Getting a drink with me some time? Not as mates I mean, as more than that / if that's alright I mean / if you don't mind 'Cause I've been sat on this for longer Than I'd ever like to say And I'd rather hear you laugh / and turn me down Than keep on looking the other way [Warming Verse 2, 16 bars, B-flat minor, quicker cheeky delivery, confidence building, faint Rhodes ring motif in gaps] Ha See, you're laughing / that's a good sign That's a start / I'll take it I've had a speech prepared for weeks I've just been waiting On the nerve to make it Remember at the pub / you nicked my chips / and said I owed you for the round? I've been owing you a lot of things I reckon it's about time I paid it down No, listen I'm serious... Well, half... alright / a quarter / more or less But the bit of me that isn't joking It's been the loudest bit, I guess There's a place along the canal It's all candles / and the waiters call you mate I'd wear the good shirt / I'd be early / I'd even book it So... it's a date? [Confident Chorus, 8 bars, D-flat major lift, smooth assured falsetto, chopped falsetto fragments brighter] So would you maybe fancy Getting a drink with me some time? Not as mates I mean, as more than that / if that's alright I mean / if you don't mind 'Cause I've been sat on this for longer Than I'd ever like to say And I'd rather hear you laugh / and turn me down Than keep on looking the other way [Half-Time Bridge, 12 bars, B-flat minor, breakbeat drops out, sub-bass and dry nylon only, voice stumbles mid-line then turns fragile and near-spoken] And honestly I think you've always known I think you've known since / since the... No. No / that's wrong / start again From the top... "Hiya, sorry, is it late"... It's twenty past eleven And the kettle's gone cold on the side The phone is lying face down on the counter Where it's been all night Your name's still lit up on the screen It's been up there since the news came on I've said this to the fridge / to the tiles / to the window Forty times And you've not heard a single one [Fragile Final Chorus, 8 bars, D-flat major lift held but sung thin and quiet, close cracked falsetto, sparse chopped falsetto fragments] So would you maybe fancy Getting a drink with me some time? Not as mates I mean, as more than that / if that's alright I mean / if you don't mind 'Cause I've been sat on this for longer Than I'd ever like to say And I'd rather hear you laugh / and turn me down Than keep on looking the other way [Resolute Verse 3, 12 bars, B-flat minor, hushed steady delivery, percussion thins out] Right. Okay. Deep breath. I'm doing it / I'm doing it for real this time Thumb above the button Like it's someone else's hand And then it's ringing down the line... [Rhodes double-stab ring motif, 2 bars, vocal rests] Still ringing... [Rhodes double-stab ring motif, 2 bars, vocal rests] ...Sorry [Instruments drop to sub-bass and single nylon note, call ended] Maybe Friday Yeah. I'll ring her Friday [Melancholic Outro, 4 bars, Vocal Fade, chopped falsetto fragments drifting] [Solo Instrumental Outro, 8 bars, Decrescendo, Rhodes ring motif fading] [Smooth slow fade, clean outro note]
