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Barry Can't Swim – The Person You’d Like To Be (2025) | Track profile | Dork

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Barry Can't Swim
Loner
The Person You’d Like To Be

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Barry Can't Swim

The Person You’d Like To Be

Release date: 10th July 2025

From LonerTrack 13:18

Electronic Music

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About This Track

"The Person You’d Like To Be" is a single by Barry Can't Swim, from the album Loner, released 10th July 2025. The track is 3:18 long. It's filed under Electronic. Full lyrics are available below. Dork has published 9 articles about Barry Can't Swim.

About the Artist

Barry Can't Swim

Barry Can't Swim

Lyrics

The Person You’d Like To Be

Change
There is nothing permanent
Except change
You are an exceptional person
In some ways, you are better than everyone else
Imagine yourself, as the type of person you have dreamed of becoming
You are on a journey, towards great riches
The best way to be liked, is to be funny, make sure to be funny
Try not to laugh too hard at anyone else's jokes
Someone has been secretly loving you from a distance
What? Who?
Don't look into someone's eyes if you love them, for too long
They will see you as you are
You miss something, you miss something you cannot name, or touch
It feels like you have lost a limb, and no one can tell it has been amputated
You try to stop panicking, but you fell down a flight of stairs
You watched a small child let go of their balloon, and begin to cry
Can you sit down with me for a moment please?
Can you hold my hand? I am frightened
I am lonely amongst these, the boxes and cables
Is it, is it a ribbon
Can I dance
Can I dance, please

Lyrics provided by LRCLIB

Track details

From Loner

3:182025Single

Listen

Album

Barry Can't Swim

Track number

1

Release year

2025

1The Person You’d Like To Be
3:18
2Different
3:27
3Kimpton
3:48
4All My Friends
3:21

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When Will We Land?

When Will We Land?

More Content - EP

More Content - EP

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All My Friends (ATRIP remix)

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Different (SBTRKT Sirens remix)

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Cars Pass By Like Childhood SweetheartsLoner

Like It’s Part Of The DanceLoner

All My FriendsLoner

About To BeginLoner

Machine Noise For A Quiet Daydream (feat. Séamus)Loner

Still RidingLoner

The Person You’d Like to Be

Dance of the Crab (Framewerk Breaks edit)

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Always Get Through to You

Define DancingWhen Will We Land?

When Will We Land?When Will We Land?

SunsleeperWhen Will We Land?

Deadbeat Gospel (feat. somedeadbeat)When Will We Land?

I Won’t Let You Down (feat. Falle Nioke & Blackboxx)When Will We Land?

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Like the Old Days

Like the Old Days

Fiorucci Made Me HardcoreMore Content - EP

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Everything Is Going To Be Alright

Everything Is Going To Be Alright

Blackpool Boulevard

Blackpool Boulevard

Skylab District

Skylab District

Some Day I Will (Remixes)

Some Day I Will (Remixes)

Some Day I Will

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Sunday at Glasto

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Because I Wanted You to Know

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Barry Can’t Swim — Chala (My Soul Is On A Loop)
Barry Can't Swim — Chala (My Soul Is on a Loop) [2:43]
Barry Can't Swim — Spotify Live Room
Barry Can’t Swim — Spotify Live Room
Barry Can't Swim — All My Friends (ATRIP remix)
Barry Can’t Swim — All My Friends (ATRIP remix)
Barry Can’t Swim — Different (SBTRKT Sirens remix)
Barry Can't Swim — Different (SBTRKT Sirens remix)
Barry Can't Swim — Wandering Mt. Moon (from Loner) [3:04]
Barry Can't Swim — Kimpton (from Loner) [3:48]
Barry Can't Swim — Cars Pass By Like Childhood Sweethearts (from Loner) [3:06]
Barry Can't Swim — Like It’s Part Of The Dance (from Loner) [4:33]
Barry Can't Swim — All My Friends (from Loner) [3:21]
Barry Can't Swim — About To Begin (from Loner) [3:31]
Barry Can't Swim — Childhood (from Loner) [3:52]
Barry Can't Swim — Marriage (from Loner) [3:15]
Barry Can't Swim — Different (from Loner) [3:27]
Barry Can't Swim — Machine Noise For A Quiet Daydream (feat. Séamus) (from Loner) [2:36]
Barry Can't Swim — Still Riding (from Loner) [3:37]
Barry Can’t Swim — All My Friends
Barry Can’t Swim — Different
Barry Can’t Swim — The Person You’d Like to Be
Barry Can’t Swim — Still Riding
Barry Can’t Swim — Dance of the Crab (Framewerk Breaks edit)
Barry Can't Swim — Dance of the Crab (Framewerk Breaks edit)
Barry Can’t Swim — Kimbara
Barry Can't Swim — Kimbara
Barry Can’t Swim — Always Get Through to You
Barry Can't Swim — Define Dancing (from When Will We Land?) [5:26]
Barry Can't Swim — When Will We Land? (from When Will We Land?) [3:33]
Barry Can't Swim — Sunsleeper (from When Will We Land?) [3:42]
Barry Can't Swim — Deadbeat Gospel (feat. somedeadbeat) (from When Will We Land?) [4:15]
Barry Can't Swim — I Won’t Let You Down (feat. Falle Nioke & Blackboxx) (from When Will We Land?) [4:18]
Barry Can't Swim — Sonder (from When Will We Land?) [3:01]
Barry Can't Swim — How It Feels (from When Will We Land?) [2:19]
Barry Can't Swim — Always Get Through To You (from When Will We Land?) [4:07]
Barry Can't Swim — Dance of the Crab (from When Will We Land?) [3:30]
Barry Can't Swim — Tell Me What You Need (feat. just lil) (from When Will We Land?) [3:29]
Barry Can't Swim — Woman (from When Will We Land?) [3:52]
Barry Can’t Swim — Sunsleeper
Barry Can’t Swim — Like the Old Days
Barry Can't Swim — Like the Old Days
Barry Can't Swim — Fiorucci Made Me Hardcore (from More Content - EP) [3:51]
Barry Can't Swim — Sonder (from More Content - EP) [3:01]
Barry Can't Swim — God Is the Space Between Us (feat. Taite Imogen) (from More Content - EP) [3:08]
Barry Can't Swim — Can We Still Be Friends? (from More Content - EP) [4:03]
Barry Can’t Swim — Can We Still Be Friends?
Barry Can’t Swim — Everything Is Going To Be Alright
Barry Can't Swim — Everything Is Going To Be Alright
Barry Can’t Swim — Blackpool Boulevard
Barry Can't Swim — Blackpool Boulevard
Barry Can't Swim — Lone Raver
Barry Can’t Swim — Lone Raver
Barry Can’t Swim — Skylab District
Barry Can't Swim — Skylab District
Barry Can't Swim — Some Day I Will (Remixes)
Barry Can’t Swim — Some Day I Will (Remixes)
Barry Can't Swim — Some Day I Will
Barry Can’t Swim — Some Day I Will
Barry Can’t Swim — Sunday at Glasto
Barry Can't Swim — Sunday at Glasto
Barry Can’t Swim — Because I Wanted You to Know
Barry Can't Swim — Because I Wanted You to Know

Always Get Through To YouWhen Will We Land?
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Because I Wanted You to Know
Dance of the CrabWhen Will We Land?
3:30
Define DancingWhen Will We Land?
5:26
How It FeelsWhen Will We Land?
2:19
SonderWhen Will We Land?
3:01
SonderMore Content - EP
3:01
SunsleeperWhen Will We Land?
3:42
When Will We Land?When Will We Land?
3:33
WomanWhen Will We Land?
3:52

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5About To Begin

7Cars Pass By Like Childhood Sweethearts

8Machine Noise For A Quiet Daydream (feat. Séamus)

9Like It’s Part Of The Dance

12Wandering Mt. Moon