Nobody Locks It
World-folk ballad with rich full studio production, 76 BPM slow driving sway, deep female contralto with chest-rich dark tone and strong full-voiced chorus, vocal prominently forward; bouzouki, accordion, fiddle, wide strings, hand percussion, upright bass, clear pre-chorus lift, four-note one-breath hook entering on each downbeat and returning eight-plus times, instrumental intro/interlude/outro, final chorus expanded with denser strings and percussion
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
