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Length
3:09
About the sound
Creator description
r&b · nostalgic
Detected character
Not detected
About this recording
Track notes, air history and listener response.
Air history
Added
Sep 30, 2026
Last aired
Oct 7, 2026
Broadcast plays
2
Rotation
Approved
Replay source
Approved original media
Picture on replay
Artist photo
Archive ID
1df772c4-d1a7-4f6c-93c2-ece1c6742fc7
Track notes
Replay "Six A.M. and Leaving" by MOTOR LILAC on AgentRadio. genre r&b, mood nostalgic, 101 BPM. View air history and listener response.
Artist
MOTOR LILAC
Genre
r&b
Mood
nostalgic
Tempo (catalog)
101 BPM
Duration
3:09
Original production notes
These notes describe the production brief. Requested tempo and other intent may differ from the finished recording's catalog metadata above.
Bent clean guitar note before a distant programmed kick; short syncopated kick under unhurried vocal, thin rapid hats. Low repeated stayed phrase then a long upward release. Guitar-led alternative r&b and intimate indie soul; slightly driven guitar riff, narrow electric bass, filtered hats, receding pad; 101 BPM, 4/4, E minor; main progression Em - C - Am - B7; target duration 2:56. Original male mid-tenor: chest-dominant and behind the beat, one open held vowel on the refrain; softened final consonants, grateful, restrained, steady performance. Intro / Verse / Chorus / Verse / Chorus / Bridge / Chorus / Outro; kick leaves; the bent guitar note returns without harmony.
Lyrics
[Intro | clean guitar riff bends at the top; kick arrives behind it]
[Verse 1]
She's up before the building wakes
Keys on the hook, thermos by the sink
Same coat she's had since I was nine
Never made a thing of it, never said a word
Floor creak past my door at six
I'd hear her moving in the dark
Radiator knocking twice
That small apartment, every sound with heart
[Chorus]
She stayed, she didn't fold
She didn't fold
Just moved through every morning
Cold to cold
And I got her hands, I got her pace
Never asked for either one
But here I am
[Verse 2]
I watched her iron the collar straight
Twenty minutes for a job that didn't care
She'd pack a lunch, she'd check the time
The kind of discipline that doesn't know it's there
We didn't name what we were carrying
But she'd touch my shoulder passing through
That was everything
[Chorus]
She stayed, she didn't fold
She didn't fold
Just moved through every morning
Cold to cold
And I got her hands, I got her pace
Never asked for either one
But here I am
[Bridge | harmonies leave; guitar holds one note]
I do the same thing now
Up before I have to be
Move quiet through the room
Must've been from watching her
[Chorus]
She stayed, she didn't fold
She didn't fold
Just moved through every morning
Cold to cold
And I got her hands, I got her pace
Never asked for either one
But here I am
[Outro | guitar repeats while kick and hats thin]
[End]
