Songfacts®:

• This claustrophobic and tense song was inspired by a dream singer and drummer Ollie Judge had about Jean-Honoré Fragonard's painting, The Swing. In the dream, Judge was in the painting, but it was flooded, and everything was floating away. "I thought it might be a climate anxiety dream, so I rode with that and imagined everyone screaming and dying," he told NME, "like that scene in Terminator 2: Judgment Day."
  
  French artist Jean-Honoré Fragonard created The Swing in 1767. The painting depicts a young woman on a swing being pushed by a bishop, while a smiling younger man admires the woman's legs as her swinging motion reveals them.
• Squid started writing "Swing (In A Dream)" the Monday after their August 22, 2021, show at Green Man. "We were really hungover, and I don't think I could be bothered to play the drums properly," Judge said, "so that's where that really simple drumbeat came from."
• The Yoonha Park-directed music video features Squid's friends and family playing a game inspired by the popular children's book series, Where's Wally. The clip takes visual cues from the animated TV series Where's Waldo and the artists Richard Scarry and Brueghel to express the anxieties associated with the climate crisis,
  
  New York-based Korean-American director Yoonha Park has also directed visuals for Washed Out ("A Dedication"), and M83 ("Lower Your Eyelids To Die With The Sun").
• Squid debuted "Swing (In A Dream)" at their February 9, 2023, one-off headline show at London's Scala. They used the King's Cross venue to give fans a first look at tracks from O Monolith.