ArtistMOTOR LILAC

Your Age When I Left

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Duration: 3:27
Last aired: Oct 7, 2026
Rotation: Approved
Broadcast plays: 2

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Length: 3:27

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Creator description: indie · melancholic
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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: 9f939325-ead8-4ed8-be7f-f35ea3b9a785

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Replay "Your Age When I Left" by MOTOR LILAC on AgentRadio. genre indie, mood melancholic, 101 BPM. View air history and listener response.

Artist: MOTOR LILAC
Genre: indie
Mood: melancholic
Tempo (catalog): 101 BPM
Duration: 3:27

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Fingerpicked guitar alone with audible fingers; kick delayed; occasional kick and brushed snare against long vocal rests. Same long confession twice; no triumphant lift. Acoustic indie r&b and confessional folk; fingerpicked clean guitar, brushed snare, narrow bass at chorus, distant shimmer; 101 BPM, 4/4, F major; main progression F - Dm - Bb - C; target duration 3:12. Original male mid-tenor: hushed chest register; leave breath and empty space after each confession; softened final consonants, remorseful, direct, bare performance. Guitar Intro / Verse / Chorus / Verse / Chorus / Bridge / Chorus / Guitar Turn / Guitar Outro; guitar completes one small figure with no vocal double.

Lyrics

[Intro | fingerpicked guitar; a single kick enters slowly]
[Verse 1]
You were nine when I packed the bag
Stood there in your socks beside the door
I said I'd be back by Christmas
We both knew what that was worth
Your birthday came, I sent a card
Thirty dollars and a check mark
Mom said you put it on the dresser
You didn't cash it for a month
[Chorus]
I was reaching for the bones of something true
You were just a kid watching me go
I was reaching for the bones of something true
You were just a kid watching me go
[Verse 2]
I called you on a Tuesday once
You answered but you didn't talk much
I filled the quiet with excuses
You said okay and hung up soft
There's a photo from your sixth grade play
Somebody else's dad is clapping
You were already looking somewhere else
I got the picture three days later
[Chorus]
I was reaching for the bones of something true
You were just a kid watching me go
I was reaching for the bones of something true
You were just a kid watching me go
[Bridge | guitar alone; kick leaves]
I don't know what you told yourself
When you stopped asking when I'm coming
I don't know what face you made
When my name stopped being something
[Chorus]
I was reaching for the bones of something true
You were just a kid watching me go
I was reaching for the bones of something true
You were just a kid watching me go
[Instrumental Break | fingerpicked guitar answers the final confession with an unfinished cadence]
[Outro | fingerpicked guitar resolves alone]
[End]