Watsky

Released: August 9, 2016

Featuring: Mal Devisa

Songwriter: Watsky Anderson .Paak Wax

Producer: Anderson .Paak Kush Mody

[Chorus: Mal Devisa]
Well I’ve made enemies along the ride
I’m afraid I could never be satisfied
But each way that I turn I face ahead

[Refrain: Mal Devisa]
Straight through to your midnight heart
Straight through to your midnight heart
Now you know your soul is dark
Straight through to your midnight heart

[Verse 1: Watsky]
You don’t know the name of like half of these folks
And they’ll be sprinting for the exit the minute you’re broke
A bunch of bobblehead muppets to laugh at your jokes
Wipe your ass and come and give your ego a stroke
I had to break it to you
Sorry buddy, it was time you knew
Nothing you ever said was funny, man the punchline’s you
One time for the palm trees and the sunshine
Two times for the two-timers being unkind
Confined to a small mind, but the fault’s mine
I always keep on crawling back across the San Andreas faultline
I keep on climbing underground to sweat out all my principles in darkness with you in this salt mine
Where we’re all blind, I should fall back, I know all signs say that I should halt
But I golf clap for this false crap
But from now on counterfeit suckers suck on my ballsack
(Alright?)

[Refrain: Mal Devisa]
Straight through to your midnight heart
Straight through to your midnight heart
Now you know your soul is dark
Straight through to your midnight heart

[Chorus: Mal Devisa]
Well I’ve made enemies along the ride
I’m afraid I could never be satisfied
But each way that I turn I face ahead

[Bridge: Mal Devisa]
I know you know it’s way too late now and your soul is dark
Yeah motherfucker I see through you to your midnight heart
Straight through, straight through
Through-through-through to your midnight heart
Now you know, now you know
Straight through to your h-h-h-h-heart

[Verse 2: Watsky]
It’s tough to care about stupid bullshit all of the time
So I gotta say I’m glad that’s your job and not mine
Everybody’s got a topic at the top of their mind
A choice of how you wanna let your life be defined
(Is it honeys?) Sleeping around is your taste?
(Is it money?) Are you the paper you chase?
(Kinda funny) You said that I’ve been playing it safe
You got the bravest voice, say that to my face
(Is it your career?) Pretty shitty to hear
But I took a difficult look in the mirror
And I checked in the rearview
Objects are never what they appear
The past tends to look crooked from here
The mask that I put on out of fear
The tracks that I didn’t put out
The facts that I kept out of my ear
The slack that I cut people who didn’t deserve it is tragically clear
No, no, no, not this year

[Bridge: Watsky and Mal Devisa]
I’m not done changing yet
I’ll get these old knees checked
I can’t bend over for someone I don’t respect

[Chorus: Mal Devisa]
Well I’ve made enemies along the ride
I’m afraid I could never be satisfied
But each way that I turn, I look ahead

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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