Released: October 15, 2014
Featuring: Common
Songwriter: Malik Yusef Manfred Mann Steve Wyreman No I.D. Common Snoh Aalegra
Producer: No I.D.
[Chorus: Snoh Aalegra]
I do bad things to good versions of me
I find good things in bad versions of me
I don't know, it's just versions of me, babe
[Post-Chorus: Snoh Aalegra]
I'm in a nightmare havin' a dream
I got a question, am I who I seem? (Oh)
I'm out the matrix from battlin' me
I'm dipped in all black, shadowin' me
[Verse 1: Snoh Aalegra]
Somethin' undefined is now takin' over me
Who am I to fight me for my own soul?
I'm sayin' yes to things that usually are no for me
I kiss the neon night and let it have control
[Chorus: Snoh Aalegra]
I do bad things to good versions of me
I find good things in bad versions of me
I don't know, it's just versions of me, babe
Why do I feel so free when I'm killin' me?
I'm fallin' to the sky caught between all the lines
[Post-Chorus: Snoh Aalegra]
I'm in a nightmare havin' a dream
I got a question, am I who I seem? (Oh)
I'm out the matrix from battlin' me
I'm dipped in all black, shadowin' me
[Refrain: Snoh Aalegra]
I get so sad at myself
When I love what's bad for my health
I wanna do right and I would
But wrong taste and feels so good
[Verse 2: Common]
Clutch the Dutch, these feelings is hard to touch
Puff enough stuff, sometimes life is rough
On the cusp of doin' right, who I'm foolin', right?
A child of the light goin' wild for the night
Cause most the fights I have, yo, I have with myself
A good dude, but I can do bad by myself
It's sad that I felt that I could never be
With nobody, girl, you know, my G
O.D. on the good life, I'm a man, it's simple
Probably the things I been through and the evil that men do
I want my cake and eat it, heartbreak, they take and leave it
The same song I'm bein' featured, I can't delete it (Hey)
The good you can see it but you really a bad girl
Livin' in a mad world, sometimes you want that girl
You ain’t been Madonna through the drama
If this comin' back brings karma, a queen is made to honor
[Chorus: Snoh Aalegra]
I do bad things to good versions of me
I find good things in bad versions of me
I don't know, it's just versions of me, babe (Oh, oh)
[Refrain: Snoh Aalegra]
I get so sad at myself
When I love what's bad for my health
I wanna do right and I would
But wrong taste and feels so good
It's so good
[Outro: Snoh Aalegra]
It's just, it's just, it's just versions of me
It's just versions of me
It's just versions of me, baby
I do bad things to good versions of me
I find good things in bad versions of me
I don't know, it's just versions of me, babe
[Post-Chorus: Snoh Aalegra]
I'm in a nightmare havin' a dream
I got a question, am I who I seem? (Oh)
I'm out the matrix from battlin' me
I'm dipped in all black, shadowin' me
[Verse 1: Snoh Aalegra]
Somethin' undefined is now takin' over me
Who am I to fight me for my own soul?
I'm sayin' yes to things that usually are no for me
I kiss the neon night and let it have control
[Chorus: Snoh Aalegra]
I do bad things to good versions of me
I find good things in bad versions of me
I don't know, it's just versions of me, babe
Why do I feel so free when I'm killin' me?
I'm fallin' to the sky caught between all the lines
[Post-Chorus: Snoh Aalegra]
I'm in a nightmare havin' a dream
I got a question, am I who I seem? (Oh)
I'm out the matrix from battlin' me
I'm dipped in all black, shadowin' me
[Refrain: Snoh Aalegra]
I get so sad at myself
When I love what's bad for my health
I wanna do right and I would
But wrong taste and feels so good
[Verse 2: Common]
Clutch the Dutch, these feelings is hard to touch
Puff enough stuff, sometimes life is rough
On the cusp of doin' right, who I'm foolin', right?
A child of the light goin' wild for the night
Cause most the fights I have, yo, I have with myself
A good dude, but I can do bad by myself
It's sad that I felt that I could never be
With nobody, girl, you know, my G
O.D. on the good life, I'm a man, it's simple
Probably the things I been through and the evil that men do
I want my cake and eat it, heartbreak, they take and leave it
The same song I'm bein' featured, I can't delete it (Hey)
The good you can see it but you really a bad girl
Livin' in a mad world, sometimes you want that girl
You ain’t been Madonna through the drama
If this comin' back brings karma, a queen is made to honor
[Chorus: Snoh Aalegra]
I do bad things to good versions of me
I find good things in bad versions of me
I don't know, it's just versions of me, babe (Oh, oh)
[Refrain: Snoh Aalegra]
I get so sad at myself
When I love what's bad for my health
I wanna do right and I would
But wrong taste and feels so good
It's so good
[Outro: Snoh Aalegra]
It's just, it's just, it's just versions of me
It's just versions of me
It's just versions of me, baby
From the album
- There Will Be Sunshine (2014)