Watsky

Released: March 5, 2020

Songwriter: Watsky

Producer: Watsky

[Verse 1]
My city is the best
My people are the best
My ego is a bulletproof vest, I know
I'm aiming at the heart
I'm famous to my mom
I'm gonna play my part, I was born for it
Hell yeah, I've been afraid
I'm shaking in my boots
I do it anyway
I'm a fool poet
You're nothing special
'Til something special cli- cli- cli- cli- cli- cli- cli- clicks

[Bridge]
If you could know
When you would die
Give you the date and time
Would you agree?
Would you feel free
If you could plan your life?

[Verse 2]
I do my mushrooms on the first of the year
I got a swimming pool that's filled up with fear
Another swimming pool that's filled up with love
Cannonball, cannonball, it's death from above

[Hook]
Do you fear that you fear too much?
Do you feel that you feel too much?
Embrace the quake
Embrace the quake
Do you fear that you fear too much?
Do you feel that you feel too much?
Embrace the quake
Embrace the quake

[Bridge]
If you could turn all of your fears into a living beast
Then could you stare dead in its eye?
Would you be scared?
Dead in the eye
Dead in the eye
Dead in the eye
Would you be scared?
Dead in the eye

[Verse 3]
I'm coming at you from the strong side
I'm prepared to pay a tall price
Can you see it in my wild eyes?
I refuse to live a small life

[Hook]
Do you fear that you fear too much?
Do you feel that you feel too much?
Embrace the quake
Embrace the quake
Do you fear that you fear too much?
Do you feel that you feel too much?
Embrace the quake
Embrace the quake
Do you fear that you fear too much?
Do you feel that you feel too much?
Embrace the quake
Embrace the quake
Do you fear that you fear too much?
Do you feel that you feel too much?
Embrace the quake
Embrace the quake

[Outro]
Embrace the quake
Embrace the quake
Embrace the quake
Embrace the quake
Embrace the quake
Embrace the quake

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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