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Jung Halo

SALT AIR

Sings at his family's seafood restaurant on Sundays and has never told his label

style

  • korean r&b
  • slow ballad
  • warm rhodes
  • restrained male vocal
  • string swells
  • late-night intimacy
  • korean accent
  • spacious and aching
  • korean accent
  • aching

the numbers

bpm
136
key
G minor
energy
0.69
dance
0.90
valence
0.39
vocal at
3.0s
length
7:20
language
Ko

lyrics

(sogeum baram)

Ilyoil ohu-e abeoji-ui sikdang
The tanks hum like a held breath at the back of the room
Sogeum-i changmun-e sseun geot-cheoreom
Salt writes on the window in a hand nobody taught it

And I sing here where the light is bad
Where the good notes go into the fish and the tiles
And nobody claps because nobody knows to

Salt air, salt air, salt air, salt air
Everything I love is preserved in something that stings
Salt air, salt air, salt air, salt air
And the sea keeps what it takes, and keeps it whole

Hoesa-neun ije nae moksori-reul soyu-hae
The label owns the voice, the Sundays are still mine
Abeoji-neun mureobo-ji anha, geunyang gonggi-reul deutneunda
He does not ask. He listens to the room and nods.

Iren geon jeongmal saranghae, raneun mal-ui daesin-ida.
This is what we say instead of saying it.
Two men and a tank of water and a Sunday, saying it.

Salt air, salt air, salt air, salt air
Everything I love is preserved in something that stings
Salt air, salt air, salt air, salt air
And the sea keeps what it takes, and keeps it whole

(salt air...)