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88rising

Walking

Release date: 11th October 2019

From Head in the Clouds II
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About This Track

'Walking' pairs Joji and Jackson Wang with Swae Lee over a track that dwells in the pleasures of attraction and pursuit. The song moves between Joji's measured verses, where desire takes on a patient, almost reverential quality, and Swae Lee's chorus, which frames romance as a matter of simple persuasion: what will it take to ease someone's worries away? Jackson Wang's verse shifts the tone toward swagger and motion, all Phantoms and jets, the confidence of someone who knows exactly what he wants. The production sits somewhere between contemporary R&B and pop, light-footed enough to feel like a summer track but substantial enough to hold the weight of three distinct vocal personalities. What emerges is less a love song than a study in different approaches to the same impulse: Joji's devotion, Jackson Wang's momentum, Swae Lee's insistence that connection ought to be simple. The song finds its centre in that tension, never quite resolving it.

"Walking" is a track by 88rising, from the album Head in the Clouds II, released 11th October 2019. Full lyrics are available below.

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88rising

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Lyrics

Walking

[Intro: Swae Lee]

Woah, oh

Woah, oh

Woah, oh

Yeah

[Chorus: Swae Lee]

What it's gon' take? (Take)

What it's gon' take to make you shake your worries away (Shake)

I'm finally seeing you face to face (Face, hey)

It's your beauty girl, plus your frame (Ooh, ooh)

[Verse 1: Joji, Swae Lee]

You got what I want, I see you walking away

This feels too real, I hope we could be the same

Back and forth but you won't get nowhere

I just want to relive this over

I need you to know, I need you to know

In my mind you don't ever let go

So bright, baby, never turn the lights off

I'll be there to catch you if you fall

If we matter at all (Yeah)

[Chorus: Swae Lee]

What it's gon' take? (Take)

What it's gon' take to make you shake your worries away (Shake)

I'm finally seeing you face to face (Face, hey)

It's your beauty girl, plus your frame (Ooh, ooh)

[Bridge: Swae Lee]

And I can't wait (Wait)

In a lil' teeny 'kini shit 'cause she love to sunbathe (Bathe)

Usually I don't even trip but I can't see you walking away (Way)

She don't even know how I do all this shit in one day (Ooh)

[Verse 2: Jackson Wang, Swae Lee]

I got the moves here

You got the juice here

We can get loose and go wild, wild, wild

Playing for keeps, yeah

Don't want to waste time

Hop in with me, take a ride, ride, ride

Swerving in Phantoms, oh yeah (Oh yeah)

She said I look handsome, oh yeah (Oh, oh yeah)

Jump on the jet, we can talk when we land

Baby know I got her in the palm of my hands now

Down to cut all ties, baby, you live life

Do this in a new town, baby, I don't mind

Do this like a young Skywalker ('Walker)

Baby, you're a real smooth talker, (Jackson)

[Chorus: Swae Lee]

What it's gon' take? (Take)

What it's gon' take to make you shake your worries away (Shake)

I'm finally seeing you face to face (Face, hey)

It's your beauty girl, plus your frame (Ooh, ooh)

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Track details

From Head in the Clouds II

2019
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Head in the Clouds II
Head in the Clouds II
88rising
Release year
2019
  1. —Hold Me Down
  2. —Tequila Sunrise
  3. —Walking
  4. —Need Is Your Love
  5. —2 The Face
  6. —La La Lost You
  7. —Shouldn't Couldn't Wouldn't
  8. —Gold Coast
  9. —Hopscotch
  10. —I Love You 3000 II
  11. —Just Used Music Again
  12. —Strange Land
  13. —Calculator

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Credits

Production & Engineering

Writer
1996Montana, Aldae, Boaz van de Beatz, Diplo, Jackson Wang (王嘉爾), Joji, Maximilian Jaeger, Robin “YODA” P. Francesco, Robin Peters, Swae Lee
Producer
1Mind, Major Lazer
Assistant Mastering Engineer
Héctor Vega
Assistant Mixing Engineer
Joshua Deguzman
Mastering Engineer
Dale Becker
Mixing Engineer
Tyler Scott
Recording Engineer
Francisco Ramirez, Liz Robson, Nate Eaton, Randy Lanphear, Vic Wainstein
Video Colorist
Jacob McKee
Video Director
Eoin Glaister
Video Editor
Charlie Rotberg
Video Executive Producer
Katie Lambert
Video Producer
Ryland Burns
Video Production Company
Stink Films
Video VFX Artist
Felix Green
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