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Jung Halo

SALT KEEPS WHAT IT TAKES

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
129
key
G# major
energy
0.69
dance
0.93
valence
0.48
vocal at
40.7s
length
3:29
language
Ko

lyrics

(sogeum)

Bada-neun gajyeoganeun geoseul beorigi anhneunda
The sea does not discard what it takes, it only stops returning it
Geuriso sogeum-eun geugeol jikinda, yeongwonhi
And salt keeps a thing whole in exchange for never letting it soften

Which is the family arrangement, more or less
Nothing thrown away, nothing given back
Everything preserved in something that stings

Salt keeps what it takes, what it takes
And nothing in this house has ever been thrown out
Salt keeps what it takes, what it takes
Not one argument, not one Sunday, not one name

Abeoji-neun nae eumag-eul deutji anhneunda, hanbeon-do
He has never listened to a record of mine, not once
Geureonde ilyoil-e-neun uija-reul mireo dunda
And every Sunday there is a chair already pulled out

Geuge geu saram-i sarang-eul mal-haneun yuil-han munjang-ida.
That chair is the only sentence he has. It is a complete sentence.
I have written four hundred and none of mine are that short.

Salt keeps what it takes, what it takes
And nothing in this house has ever been thrown out
Salt keeps what it takes, what it takes
Not one argument, not one Sunday, not one name

(a chair...)
SALT KEEPS WHAT IT TAKES — Jung Halo · FERAL