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Length
3:11
About the sound
Creator description
r&b · uplifting
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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
6ae7a255-567f-4a0d-a866-24f6abe4d00d
Track notes
Replay "Borrowed Hours" by MOTOR LILAC on AgentRadio. genre r&b, mood uplifting, 130 BPM. View air history and listener response.
Artist
MOTOR LILAC
Genre
r&b
Mood
uplifting
Tempo (catalog)
130 BPM
Duration
3:11
Original production notes
These notes describe the production brief. Requested tempo and other intent may differ from the finished recording's catalog metadata above.
Warm moving bass plays alone; intricate hats enter second; syncopated kick and quick hats leave bass melodic freedom. One-hour refrain rises in two balanced phrases, then drops to a plain last line. Funk-bass r&b and rooftop dance-pop; funk-inflected electronic bass, nimble hats, breathing synth pads; 130 BPM, 4/4, A major; main progression A - D - Bm - E; target duration 3:04. Original male mid-tenor: floating chest lead with a brief thin upper reach at the bridge; softened final consonants, buoyant, temporary, bittersweet performance. Intro / Verse / Chorus / Verse / Chorus / Bass Break / Bridge / Chorus / Outro; pads narrow; bass carries the rooftop motif alone.
Lyrics
[Intro | melodic bass first; fast hats enter; pads breathe wide]
[Verse 1]
Somebody left the door to the roof cracked
Brought a speaker up, nobody looking back
City underneath us, all that static glow
The weight just gone, I don't know where it went
Kevin passing something, laughing at the sky
Not thinking about tomorrow, wasn't asking why
[Chorus]
We had one hour, borrowed from the dark
Everybody shining, everybody sharp
One hour, nothing owed, nothing yet
Just rooftop air and how good it felt
[Verse 2]
Someone turned it up, the bass came through the floor
Damira dancing by the ledge, arms out, I swore
She had her eyes closed, chin up, unafraid
I caught that feeling, held it, watched it fade
Two blocks over a siren cut the dark
Nobody said a word, but everybody felt it park
[Chorus]
We had one hour, borrowed from the dark
Everybody shining, everybody sharp
One hour, nothing owed, nothing yet
Just rooftop air and how good it felt
[Instrumental Break | bass carries the hook; hats thin to one pattern]
[Bridge]
Phone buzzed in my pocket, didn't look
Kevin's jaw went tight, that was the whole book
All that open sky
And I'm already back down
Smiling at myself
For thinking we were found
[Chorus]
We had one hour, borrowed from the dark
Everybody shining, everybody sharp
One hour, nothing owed, nothing yet
Just rooftop air and how good it felt
[Outro | bass hook alone as pads retreat]
[End]
