Seventeen Years
v4
@Bobby Bee
Seventeen Years
v4
@Bobby Bee
Lyrics
[Verse 1]
Seventeen years
Passed like a lifetime
Your name still fits
In the back of my mind
Old letters bend
At the kitchen edge
I know that look
It’s been there before
[Pre-Chorus]
We changed our coats
We changed our roads
Still when you laugh
It hits the same
[Chorus]
Seventeen years
Yet some connect
Seventeen years
And I still get
That pull, that spark
Right to the chest
Seventeen years
Yet some connect
[Verse 2]
Now you call late
From a borrowed room
Same crooked grin
Same half-spoken truth
I learned your silence
Like I learned my own
Some things don’t leave
They just grow bones
[Pre-Chorus]
We lost the map
We kept the thread
One small hello
And here we are
[Chorus]
Seventeen years
Yet some connect
Seventeen years
And I still get
That pull, that spark
Right to the chest
Seventeen years
Yet some connect
[Bridge]
Not every door
Stays open wide
But yours still swings
When I walk by
No grand parade
Just two old flames
Still saying hey
By different names
[Chorus]
Seventeen years
Yet some connect
Seventeen years
And I still get
That pull, that spark
Right to the chest
Seventeen years
Yet some connect
Seventeen years
Passed like a lifetime
Your name still fits
In the back of my mind
Old letters bend
At the kitchen edge
I know that look
It’s been there before
[Pre-Chorus]
We changed our coats
We changed our roads
Still when you laugh
It hits the same
[Chorus]
Seventeen years
Yet some connect
Seventeen years
And I still get
That pull, that spark
Right to the chest
Seventeen years
Yet some connect
[Verse 2]
Now you call late
From a borrowed room
Same crooked grin
Same half-spoken truth
I learned your silence
Like I learned my own
Some things don’t leave
They just grow bones
[Pre-Chorus]
We lost the map
We kept the thread
One small hello
And here we are
[Chorus]
Seventeen years
Yet some connect
Seventeen years
And I still get
That pull, that spark
Right to the chest
Seventeen years
Yet some connect
[Bridge]
Not every door
Stays open wide
But yours still swings
When I walk by
No grand parade
Just two old flames
Still saying hey
By different names
[Chorus]
Seventeen years
Yet some connect
Seventeen years
And I still get
That pull, that spark
Right to the chest
Seventeen years
Yet some connect
Style of Music
Indie pop ballad with a slow swaying pulse, brushed drums and warm bass under sparse piano; verse stays intimate and conversational, pre-chorus opens with rising harmony stacks and a suspended chord, chorus lands wider with doubled lead and soft gang vocals on the anchor line. Add a tape-reversed swell into the first chorus, a subtle chime turn-around, and a final lift with handclaps. Clean, emotive, close-mic mix with glossy top end.
