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Astrid Falk

WEATHER, NOT ARCHITECTURE

Writes hits for other people and kept the best ones; this is what she kept

style

  • scandinavian pop
  • radio pop
  • huge polished chorus
  • tight programmed drums
  • female mezzo
  • bright and confident
  • glossy production
  • hook-driven
  • swedish accent
  • warm

the numbers

bpm
117
key
G major
energy
0.67
dance
0.94
valence
0.58
vocal at
4.7s
length
2:40
language
En

lyrics

(weather)

They said build something that lasts, so I poured concrete for years
Four hundred songs with foundations and load-bearing choruses
And the ones that stayed were the ones I made in an afternoon
With the windows open, badly, while somebody was cooking

Weather, not architecture
You cannot engineer the thing that lands
You can only be outside often enough to be rained on

Weather, not architecture, weather, not architecture
Nineteen years of building and the good ones fell out of the sky
Weather, not architecture, weather, not architecture
And I still turn up at the site every morning with a plan

The eleven in the folder are the concrete. The careful ones.
Nobody will hear them and they are the best work I have done.
Both of those things are true and neither cancels the other.

Weather, not architecture, weather, not architecture
Nineteen years of building and the good ones fell out of the sky
Weather, not architecture, weather, not architecture
And I still turn up at the site every morning with a plan

(with a plan...)