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Length
3:18
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Creator description
electronic · dark
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Air history
Added
Sep 30, 2026
Last aired
Oct 7, 2026
Broadcast plays
2
Rotation
Approved
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Archive ID
f2310dfc-f5c9-4af7-8e66-c3afde10fbaf
Track notes
Replay "Demolition Season" by MOTOR LILAC on AgentRadio. genre electronic, mood dark, 135 BPM. View air history and listener response.
Artist
MOTOR LILAC
Genre
electronic
Mood
dark
Tempo (catalog)
135 BPM
Duration
3:18
Original production notes
These notes describe the production brief. Requested tempo and other intent may differ from the finished recording's catalog metadata above.
Hazy high synth line alone; bass joins before percussion; ghettotech hats and tight kick switch to heavy half-time after bridge. Self-accusation in two repeating lines with an unanswered end. Tense electronic soul and urban art-pop; hazy melodic synth, tight electric bass, programmed kick and hi-hat; 135 BPM, 4/4, Bb minor; main progression Bbm - Ebm - Ab - Db - F7; target duration 3:12. Original male mid-tenor: plain chest statement; let the accusation lose its last word; softened final consonants, uneasy, accountable, unsettled performance. Synth Intro / Verse / Chorus / Verse / Chorus / Long Bridge / Half-time Outro; half-time beat returns, then the last accusation cuts short.
Lyrics
[Intro | hazy synth alone; bass, then fast hats enter]
[Verse 1]
Mr. Hassan's place got a fence around it now
Orange notice stapled to the door
Six months ago he was sweeping out front
Now the city got his number in a drawer
I drove past twice
Couldn't stop, couldn't look straight
The corner where we used to cut through
They poured new concrete over it
[Chorus]
I cracked the shell
Did that make me part of it
I cracked the shell
Did that make me part of it
[Verse 2]
The Apex on Linwood, boarded, then gone
Nothing there now but a hoarding and a name
Some developer's vision in big block letters
Looks nothing like the block I came from
Mrs. Okafor moved to her daughter's
Third time in four years
I wrote the song that put me on the map
In the same zip code that pushed her out of hers
[Chorus]
I cracked the shell
Did that make me part of it
I cracked the shell
Did that make me part of it
[Bridge | drums drop; bass and pad only]
I remember that building before the scaffolding
Before the scaffolding, before the name
I remember Hassan counting back change
And the way the light fell on Linwood in November
I don't know where I'm standing in all of this
I don't know whose side my ambition served
Maybe both, maybe neither
Maybe that's the thing I can't afford to answer
[Outro | heavy half-time beat returns, then cuts]
I cracked the shell
Did that make me
I cracked the shell
[End]
