About the song: Wait

About the song: Wait

Written by Anders Wiking.

A while back I was driving home from work, listening to the album Först ska vi äta, sen sova och sen kommer pappa, witch by the way is a sentence you use a lot working with the youngest kids in pre-school, and my favorite song Väntan (wait) started playing. The song has a kind of sad/melancholy sound and the rockets sounds in the intro turns it in to some kind of depressed New Year’s Eve thing.

The day before listening to this in my car I saw a tv-show where, in one scene, a mother and her child was on the ship “Estonia” that sunk between Sweden and Estonia back in 1994 drowning around 950 people, and you got to watch them slowly drown, a very claustrophobic scene. So with that scene in mind and some depressing New Year’s Eve music on I started to sing along and just improvise in the moment. when I came home I hade the melody ready and knew what I wanted the lyrics to be about. Then I simply recorded it to the track and sent as a surprise to Johan. I had no real intent to have it published, it was just something that I did because it was fun, but Johan did his mix-wizardry and it turned out great!