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Jonas Berg

The Wall

Was a competitive swimmer

style

  • scandinavian house pop
  • disco influence
  • filtered chords
  • punchy four-on-floor
  • male tenor
  • warm and hopeful
  • bright synth stabs
  • euphoric
  • danish accent
  • long filtered breakdown

the numbers

bpm
129
key
F major
energy
0.73
dance
0.95
valence
0.56
vocal at
3.3s
length
3:12
language
En

lyrics

(instrumental, building)

Every length ends at a wall, that's the design
You do not look up, you trust that it is coming
Eleven years of trusting a wall I could not see
(could not see)
Turns out that is the only transferable skill I have

People think swimming is about the water (about the water)
It is about believing in a wall

The wall, the wall
It arrives whether or not you look for it
The wall, the wall
Stop checking, just keep breathing on the third

I checked once, at fifteen, at a championship, mid-race
Lost half a second and the whole thing and the year
Coach said nothing for a week which was the correct punishment
(correct punishment)
Then he said "it was always coming" and that was the lesson

(filtered, distant)
He died in March. I swam that morning. Didn't look up once.
(BUILD 16 BARS, FULL DROP)

The wall, the wall
It arrives whether or not you look for it
The wall, the wall
Stop checking, just keep breathing on the third

(the wall...)