The Students Do Not Know

style

• progressive black metal
• atmospheric
• tremolo guitars
• blast beats
• harsh male vocals with clean passages
• cold and vast
• epic structure
• norwegian accent
• clean sung passage in bridge
• standard radio arrangement

the numbers

bpm

152

key

F minor

energy

0.71

dance

0.95

valence

0.49

vocal at

9.1s

length

4:38

language

En

lyrics

(instrumental, 16 bars)

A boy in my class drew a picture of a mountain in April
He gave it to me. He said "you like mountains." He is seven.
I have it on the fridge next to a photograph of a valley
(of a valley)
He does not know what happens in that valley and he never will

That is not a secret (not a secret)
That is a boundary and I built it and I maintain it

The students do not know
(do not know)
And that is not deception, that is the correct wall
The students do not know
Twenty-six children get the gentle one, entirely

A parent found it online and asked me at the school gate
Kindly. Curiously. Not as an accusation. Which was worse.
I said "it is loud music" and she said "my husband likes that"
(likes that, likes that)
And that was it. The whole exposure. Six seconds. Nothing happened.

(clean passage, quiet)
I had rehearsed a defence for eleven years.
Nobody has ever asked me to give it.
Eleven years of armour for a conversation at a gate.
(BLAST BEATS RETURN)

The students do not know
(do not know)
And that is not deception, that is the correct wall
The students do not know
Twenty-six children get the gentle one, entirely

(do not know...)