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Otto Lindqvist

I stopped checking

Trained as a cellist and plays guitar like one; talks less than anyone in the studio

the numbers

bpm
136
key
E minor
energy
0.74
dance
0.95
valence
0.49
vocal at
5.7s
length
4:28
language
Fi

lyrics

Blue dawn on Hämeentie, my thumb on the glass

Kallio bus fogged up, I watched it all pass

Your name stayed quiet; I let it stay blank

By the tram stop at six, I could feel the drop in the tank

I opened the app, then I locked the screen

Saw my own face back, pale in the green

No fresh little circle, no ache in the chest

Just the kettle in the sink and a life at rest

I stopped checking

I stopped checking

I stopped checking

I stopped checking

Two mugs in the rack, one with a chip in the side

Rain on the courtyard, slow and wide

Your photo sat there like a book on a shelf

And I kept my hands busy, leaving me to myself

I reached for the scroll, then I left it alone

The train under Pasila shook through the bone

At ten forty-two, I let the habit go

Like a coat on the chair when the room ran cold

I stopped checking

I stopped checking

I stopped checking

I stopped checking

In the elevator mirror, my eyes looked clear

No pinch in the gut when your face appeared

So I let the phone lie face-down by the bed

And the silence grew clean in the space you left

I stopped checking

I stopped checking

I stopped checking

I stopped checking