Watsky

Released: August 19, 2016

Songwriter: LEJKEYS Watsky

Producer: Kush Mody

[Verse 1]
I got a year's supply of capsules (capsules)
I got a bottle full of friends (full of friends, full of friends, full of friends)
They're always right around (around)
To come show me the town (the town)
Delivered through a filtered lens
My doctor says I'm being reckless (reckless)
That quitting's risky for my health (and I'll fuck up my life real bad)
But if I had to choose (to choose)
I know I'd rather lose my life
Than have to lose myself

[Chorus]
Chemical angel
Comfort I crave
Comfort I crave
Comfort I crave
Don't come around no more
I'm already saved
I'm already saved
I'm already saved

[Verse 2]
I'd like us to spend some alone time (just you and me)
But if I slide into a zone (down and then down, down and then down, down and then down, and then down, and then down, and then down)
Don't take it personal (please don't)
You gotta understand
My brain has got a mind of its own
I don't know if I'm close to drowning (deeper than anybody on the planet has ever been under the sea)
Or if I'm finally free (gotta get up and fly, get up so high, I'ma get up higher than a speeding bullet up in the sky)
I touch my artery (and watch)
And watch my fingertips bob up and down like buoys at sea

[Chorus]
Chemical angel
Comfort I crave
Comfort I crave
Comfort I crave
Don't come around no more
I'm already saved
I'm already saved
I'm already saved

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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