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10 songs that feel like When My Ship Comes In

Matched to When My Ship Comes In by Clint Black on how the music actually moves — intensity, dynamic swing, texture, tempo — not by genre tag. Here's what makes each one a match.

The song you love
When My Ship Comes In
Clint Black
safe 19/100 intensity 70 BPM
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Forever Young — Joan Baez safe 80 BPM

A 98% feel-match — carries the same serene pull and lands at almost exactly the same energy (20/100).

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How Deep Is the Ocean — Chet Baker safe 70 BPM

99% match across our 8 measured dimensions; it lands at almost exactly the same energy (19/100). Same smooth texture.

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Gabriel and Me — Joan Baez safe 70 BPM

Keeps the same serene pull — lands at almost exactly the same energy (19/100). Measured 99% alike. Nearly the same tempo, too (70 BPM).

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Peaceful Easy Feeling — Eagles safe 75 BPM

Measures 99% the same. It lands at almost exactly the same energy (19/100). Same smooth texture.

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Oh Had I a Golden Thread — Pete Seeger safe 70 BPM

A 96% feel-match — carries the same serene pull and lands at almost exactly the same energy (15/100). Nearly the same tempo, too (70 BPM).

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Tonight I Climbed the Wall — Alan Jackson safe 70 BPM

96% match across our 8 measured dimensions; it lands at almost exactly the same energy (23/100). Same smooth texture.

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Tea for the Tillerman — Cat Stevens safe 72 BPM

Keeps the same serene pull — lands at almost exactly the same energy (15/100). Measured 96% alike. Nearly the same tempo, too (72 BPM).

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Rückert-Lieder — Gustav Mahler safe 60 BPM

Measures 98% the same. It lands at almost exactly the same energy (18/100). Same smooth texture.

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In the Bleak Midwinter — Holst safe 60 BPM

A 98% feel-match — carries the same serene pull and lands at almost exactly the same energy (18/100).

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Amazing Grace — Judy Collins safe 60 BPM

98% match across our 8 measured dimensions; it lands at almost exactly the same energy (18/100). Same smooth texture.

Frequently asked

What songs sound like “When My Ship Comes In” by Clint Black?

The closest feel-matches we measure are “Forever Young” by Joan Baez, “How Deep Is the Ocean” by Chet Baker, “Gabriel and Me” by Joan Baez — the top match scores 98% alike. Matching is by how the songs actually move (intensity, dynamic range, texture, tempo, predictability, vocal force), not by genre tag or popularity.

How intense is “When My Ship Comes In”?

It measures 19/100 on our intensity scale, computed from a dynamic range of 5/10, smooth texture, no sudden shifts, and soft vocals. Tempo is 70 BPM.

How do you decide which songs are similar?

Every song in our catalog is measured on 8 dimensions — intensity, dynamic range, tempo, sudden changes, texture, predictability, vocal force and fine sound detail. Similarity is the distance between two songs across those measurements, so matches cross genres and eras. Shared mood tags break ties.

By the numbers: how this song compares

Computed from this song’s place among the 19,209 songs we’ve measured.

Where it sits in 19,000 songs

This sits near the calm end of everything we've measured — gentler than 91% of the 19,209 songs in the library. Its intensity reading of 19/100 comes from a dynamic range of 5/10, smooth texture, no sudden shifts, and soft vocals. It shares this stretch of the spectrum with thousands of other tracks, so the finer fingerprint below is what really separates it.

What makes it unusual

What stands out most about this song is a slow, unhurried pace: more extreme on that axis than 96% of everything we've measured. At the far opposite end of the library sit the songs built on full chaos — sudden changes, huge quiet-to-loud swings, and relentless energy — the kind of track this one is the counterpoint to.

Feels almost identical to

Closest matches by feel across all 19,209 measured songs — not by genre or artist, by how they actually move.

What it’s good for

Sleep9/10
Focus10/10
Workout1/10
Dinner7/10
Party / hype1/10

Scored from this song’s tempo, intensity, dynamics and texture — not crowd votes.

1989 in context

The 219 songs we’ve measured from 1989 average a dynamic range of 6.5/10. At 5/10, this track is gentler and steadier than its year.

Mixes smoothly with

Within a few BPM and close in feel — they flow without a jarring transition.

The fingerprint

Intensity19
Dynamics44
Tempo17
Surprise0
Density0
Predictability0
Vocal force25
Trigger load0

The 8-dimension measurement behind every rating on this page.

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