Third Stroke

style

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

the numbers

bpm

129

key

F# major

energy

0.70

dance

0.95

valence

0.55

vocal at

2.1s

length

2:41

language

En

lyrics

(instrumental, hopeful)

Breathe on the third stroke, always the third
Eleven years of the same instruction in my head
My coach is dead now and the instruction isn't
(and it isn't)
That's what a good coach actually leaves you

Everything hard I've ever done (ever done)
I did by counting to three and continuing

Third stroke, third stroke
Don't look up, don't check the distance
Third stroke, third stroke
The wall arrives whether you watch for it or not

Now it's a dance floor and the counting still works
Nobody knows I'm swimming, they think I'm having fun
Both are true, I'm doing both, I've always done both
(always done both)
Endurance and joy were never different things

(filtered, distant)
One... two... breathe...
One... two... breathe...
(BUILD 16 BARS, FULL DROP)

Third stroke, third stroke
Don't look up, don't check the distance
Third stroke, third stroke
The wall arrives whether you watch for it or not

(third stroke...)