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RIOT SEASON

Barrier

Played to eleven people for six years and then to eleven thousand in one summer

style

  • indie rock
  • stadium rock
  • driving guitars
  • anthemic chorus
  • male baritone
  • urgent and rousing
  • big live drums
  • singalong energy
  • festival scale
  • british accent

the numbers

bpm
144
key
D major
energy
0.74
dance
0.95
valence
0.52
vocal at
1.5s
length
3:04
language
En

lyrics

(instrumental)

Front row, barrier, twenty thousand behind them
And I can see four faces properly, only four
The rest is a field of phones and a noise like weather
(like weather)
Those four faces are the entire job, every single night

One of them was crying in Leeds (in Leeds)
I have no idea why and I think about her constantly

Barrier
(barrier)
Four people I can actually see, every night
Barrier
I play the whole thing to whoever's crying

Somebody told me to look at the back, it plays better on camera
I tried it for a tour and the songs went strange and hollow
Turns out I need a face. Not a crowd. One face.
(one face, one face)
So I look down at the barrier and let the cameras cope

(crowd chant, no instruments)
Whoever's crying... whoever's crying...
(BAND CRASHES IN)

Barrier
(barrier)
Four people I can actually see, every night
Barrier
I play the whole thing to whoever's crying

(barrier!)