We Almost Had a Baby Lyrics

Lyric discussion by Breakfast 

Cover art for We Almost Had a Baby lyrics by Emmy the Great

When she talks about "the one and five in four" she's referring to the standard country bass line, which leads me to wonder whether the person she is addressing is maybe a bass player. Certainly not many other instrumentalists would talk about playing that. You can hear this type of line on a couple of songs on the album, noticeably at the start of "Dylan".

Song Meaning

Yeah, she said in a interview. Her ex-boyfriend was a bass player. I don't play bass, I don't know but you're right.

Indeed a sad beautiful song.