Watsky

Released: August 19, 2016

Featuring: Danny Skyhigh McClain

Songwriter: Frans Mernick Watsky

Producer: Kush Mody Frans Mernick

[Verse 1]
And the clouds are red and pink like they're wearing a tube of lipstick
The sun is dimming while dipping a toe into the Pacific
Just gimme a hot jacuzzi
A spliff and we'll watch a movie
I'm spiffy, man in a jiffy I'm lifted and living groovie

[Chorus]
I'm a groupie to the good life
Looking for a taste of paradise
I don't need the whole pie
Just wanna have my little slice

[Verse 2]
I found the fountain of youth and went skinny dipping up in it
I pick up the lucky pennies, epiphanies every minute
I run the money to Coinstar and with the cash from the ticket
I snatch my homies whatever they want at Denny's and kick it
'Til the mothafuckin' Sun rise
So many folks I love right here
But it hasn't been a good night
Until the shit gets kinda weird

[Verse 3]
I got a stylish private island inside of my mind the size of Hawaii
And when I'm vibing you're likely to find me deep in my psyche
Hiding out peeping a flying V of neon pelicans filling the psychedelic horizon like
Wow, what just happened?
I'll please have what he is having
And how can I come ride that wave?

[Chorus]
I'm a groupie to the good life
Looking for a taste of paradise
I don't need the whole pie
Just wanna have my little slice
I'm a groupie to the good life
Looking for a taste of paradise
And I just want my slice
(just want my slice pretty please)

[Verse 4]
Don't give a damn if I'm damp, I dance in the rain
I decided to celebrate like the sky is dumping champagne on me
Paint every clap of thunder as Heaven popping a bottle
Jump in and paddle the deepest puddles
Strap on my goggles
I gotta seek what I lack
When I'm weak, gotta act
I'm a freak, it's a fact
But I can't say that I mind
Gotta leave those thoughts behind
And I hop in my car and I bob in my seat
When I'm dropping the beat as I mob the beach
And I stop and I park at the top of a cliff in the dark
And I'm digging on the stars in the sea
Shining like a fistful of diamonds
That somebody went and threw into the sky but they ricochet off
And a couple of 'em fell into the water and they sink the bottom
And I think that I saw some
But I blink and lost 'em
And I drink in the awesome view
Infinite kilometers of water and the tiny ships moving across 'em
If I'm getting money then I get it while I can
But if I'm not, I better live it up and dammit I demand
To give it every single breath I got inside of me and try to be the man

[Chorus]
I'm a groupie to the good life
Looking for a taste of paradise
I don't need the whole pie
Just wanna have my little slice
I'm a groupie to the good life
Looking for a taste of paradise
And I just want my slice

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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