← stationFERAL
Jung Halo

THE TIDE DOES THIS

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
C major
energy
0.69
dance
0.93
valence
0.39
vocal at
7.2s
length
2:58
language
Ko

lyrics

(mulgyeol)

Bada-neun jal-mothae-do sagwa-haji anhneunda
The sea never apologises and nobody has ever asked it to
Gyeoul-e mureul ppaego, yeoreum-e dollyeojunda
It takes the water out in winter and returns it in June

The tide does this
The tide has always done this

Abeoji-do gata, mal-eul ppaego, uija-reul millyeojunda
My father is the same, takes the words out, pushes the chair back
Nuga geugeol chagapda-go hae-do, na-neun anda
People call it cold. I have learned to read water.

The tide does this
The tide has always done this

Ilyoil-e naneun gonggi-e nolae-handa
On Sundays I sing to a room that smells of salt and nothing else
Bakssu-neun eopda, geuriso geugeon munje-ga anida
There is no applause. That was never the transaction.

The tide does this
The tide has always done this
The tide does this
And I have stopped standing on the shore asking why

(mulgyeol...)