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BackburnerWatsky

Released: December 5, 2016

Songwriter: Watsky

Producer: Watsky

[Verse 1]
I remember it was broad daylight
We were mobbing down Broadway right
Past all the North Beach titty bars
Condor Club, Little Darlings and my shitty car
You were looking pretty darn fine in the passenger side of my Momma's old ride and
I was thinking if I don't say shit then I won't say shit
So this scrub shit ends right here
It's been a pain in the ass sitting on this awkward feeling
But I know that it's real and I'm thinking that you probably had an inkling judging how you leaned back sighed and said

[Chorus]
"Mama said love's only half about love and the other half's time and if you want to find your better half baby then you better have timing on your side."
"Mama said love's only half about love and the other half's time and if you want to find your better half baby then you better have timing on your side."
Keep me on the backburner
Keep me on the backburner
Keep me on the backburner
Keep me on the backburner

[Verse 2]
So I thought for a bit
Sounds like a hot pile of fuck that shit cause
What about sacrifice?
Doing what we got to cause it's too painful not to
You said "That's really a beautiful thought but let's not be naive and deceive ourselves. You're gonna leave California and for your own sake please don't force a mistake"
Life tends to take irregular courses guided by some devilish forces
Maybe you could be my wife stepping from our second divorces before we turn forever to corpses
I just think you're clever and gorgeous
If I ever get to enter that fortress
And pour this pleasure into every orifice
I won't be checking my watch
I won't be checking it

[Chorus]
"Mama said love's only half about love and the other half's time and if you want to find your better half baby then you better have timing on your side."
"Mama said love's only half about love and the other half's time and if you want to find your better half baby then you better have timing on your side."
Keep me on the backburner
Keep me on the backburner
Keep me on the backburner
Keep me on the backburner

Watsky

A successful slam poet turned rapper, Watsky first gained attention through ‘Russell Simmons’ HBO Def Poetry,’ and a later burst of viral success for his fast rapping. At every turn, Watsky has refused to be pigeonholed, following up his speed rap success with 2013 LP Cardboard Castles, an eccentric ode to creativity, and 2014’s Anderson. Paak-produced All You Can Do. After a hiatus to work on new material, Watsky pivots again, this time to prose, returning simultaneously with the essay collection How To Ruin Everything, published by Plume/Penguin-Random House, of which Hamilton creator Lin-Manuel Miranda writes, “funny, subversive […] you find yourself nodding your head in wonder and recognition.” How To Ruin Everything debuted in the New York Times best-selling list. In total, he has created five studio albums and two live albums. Watsky released his fifth album, x INFINITY August 2016, describing it as his most ambitious project yet. Most recently, in January of 2019, he released a short album called Complaint.

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