The title track opens on an Eb chord for the first four bars before the D major floor arrives. Once the verse lands, the bass mostly plays A and G, not D, so the song lives on the V-IV pair, and the singer parks on B, the sixth degree, hovering above the fifth.
True Loves · Hooray For Earth
D major · 143 BPM · intro on Eb (bII) for the first 6 seconds
The intro sits on Eb for three two-second windows. Chroma reads Eb, bass reads Eb. Then at 6 seconds the harmony steps down a half step to D, and the song's real key is finally in the room. This is the same Phrygian bII opening move Sails uses the same album, but here the pedal is only three windows, not eight. The band names the flat-second, then abandons it. The vocal enters after the drop.
favorite momentThe half-step descent from Eb to D on the sixth beat. A one-chord Phrygian introduction, then the tonic in D major arrives without a cadence.
The verse floor · bass leans on A (V) and G (IV), not D (I)
Bass histogram over the whole song: A 30.4%, G 22.0%, B 16.7%, D 7.8%. The song's V and IV together carry more than half the bass work. D, the tonic, sits fourth at only 7.8%. Chord-root counter for the whole track reads A 22, B 17, Eb 16, G 14, D 12, F# 7, so the top-two chord anchors in the mix are the V (A) and the vi root (B). The song refuses to land on the tonic and floats on the dominant-plus-relative-minor pair.
favorite momentOnly 7.8% D bass across the whole song. The tonic is the reference, not the home.
Vocal parks on B (6th) over A (V), the added-13th color
Vocal top three pitch classes: B 25.7%, A 14.8%, D 14.0%. The singer's most-used note is the sixth degree of the key. Against the bass's V (A), that vocal B is a 9th above the A root, which reads as the 13th (or 6th) color of an A chord, an added-9-added-13 hover. Against the vi (Bm), the same B is the root itself. The singer is either the root of the relative minor or the 6th above the dominant, but almost never sitting on D. The chorus lift, when it happens, is the moment the vocal finally moves to D, the tonic the harmony has been withholding.
favorite momentOne note doing two jobs. Vocal B = the root of vi and the 13th of V, the entire verse pivots on this ambiguity.