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TRACK

Goodbyes

Release date: 21st August 2017

From Wallflower

Track 5

4:56

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About This Track

'Goodbyes' by Jordan Rakei is a 2017 R&B/Soul track from the album 'Wallflower'. The lyrics move through a fraught, intimate exchange, with the speaker admitting to a shift in feeling, then letting go of sadness as devotion takes over. There is also a surreal, self-aware streak, including talk of a “sweet machine”, and a sense that love is being tested by conditions and performances, rather than offered in plain terms. The overall tone is rueful but carried forward, like a surrender that refuses to linger.

"Goodbyes" is a track by Jordan Rakei, from the album Wallflower, released 21st August 2017. The track is 4:56 long. It's filed under R&B/Soul. Full lyrics are available below. Dork has published 2 articles about Jordan Rakei.

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Jordan Rakei

Jordan Rakei

Lyrics

Goodbyes

Yes I was flaking on you
'Cause I was sturdy about it last night
No need to take away from it
You flew, I surrender to the moment
You washed away the sadness
Your world had no minimum requirements
So tender and so sweet machine
I spot the soul of a masquerade-rade

Unnecessary goodbyes, you've taken your time
Unwrestled by the moment
Homed by the thread of your mind

Talk deep to test the water
Three inches too fine and too slow
I stealth right into order
You've broken the subtle lovers throne
Ice keeps melting like rain drops, rain drops
Clouds of guilt built like a nimbus
I'm weak it's such a mercy
Control me like a circus, the circus

Unnecessary goodbyes, you've taken your time
Unwrestled by the moment
Homed by the thread of your mind

Unnecessary goodbyes, you've taken your time
Unwrestled by the moment
Homed by the thread of your mind

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Track details

From Wallflower

4:562017

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Album

22nd August 2017

Track number

5

Release year

2017

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Writer: Jim Macrae, Jordan Rakei, Tom Guy
Writer: Jordan Rakei, Tom Guy (3)
Producer: Jordan Rakei
Bass: Tom Guy, Tom Guy (3)
Drums: Jim Macrae, Jim Macrae (2)
Vocals: Jordan Rakei
Additional Piano: Tom Guy
Additional Synthesizer: Jim Macrae
Drum Programmer: Jordan Rakei
Drum Programming: Jordan Rakei
Electric Guitar: Dave Okumu
Piano: Jordan Rakei, Tom Guy (3)
Rhodes Piano: Jordan Rakei
Strings: Tobie Tripp
Synthesizer: Jim Macrae (2), Jordan Rakei

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