And then in the water (why)
I know you hear it (I see it like fading memories)
I took my love, hear, I took it down
Climbed a mountain and turned around round round
Saw my reflection inna snow covered hill
Till the landslide brought me down
Mirror sky, what is love
Can the child in my heart rise above-bove-bove
Can I sail through the changin ocean tide whoah
Can I handle the seasons of my life oh my life
Yeah I've been afraid of changin
Cause I've built my life around you
Time makes you bolder yeah children get older
And I'm gettin' older, too oo-oo-oo-oo
Oh yeah, I'm gettin' older, too
Sorry I missed yuh again
Always be missin you
Always out my way (out the way)
Always wastin
Always going
Always gone
All ways're the wrong ways these days
Lookin out on another city's lights
Movin so fast the trick's I ain't goin nowhere
Yuh know it like you know me
They seen me go from nothin to what's all this (all this)
But you see right through me and you seein nothin good (this time)
Jammed up let down and here comes that water
Kill the headlights when you don't wanna see my nothin no more (no more no more)
Maximum orange maximum shine
Ghost notes meet all yer favorite remixes
Like let's have a good time this time
Last time last nights last rites lasts and lasts
Relax and we roll with it gone
Million dollar day million dollar whoah
Don't run back to what broke you
That's a younger me shining shining kind
Happy happy happy sad now sho'
Look up at this sunshine look up at this fat moon
Blessins, lessons, these years flew by
Messin heaven when all these fears gonna die
You say we same we evah been evah been yeah
I ain't so sure no more no more no more
Black car the way home when the trains are done
We not done this night’s climbing
All our lives all are live you feel that
All our lives are last nights last nights
Honest I’ll find the beat and find my way
In my mind in my feet you know I always do
Visions of piece visions of me complete
Used to be next you you happily but I’ll find me
I dreamt last night about a crystal tattoo
On my forehead made out of fear
And I smashed it straight on
I’m not right I’m not brave but there was only one way
I live here with my people and this and these two hands
I love here right as I can be and this space right here is yours
Rest those knees blessed by me best of threes yeah
You’ve had your fill yeah of good times (good wine)((good life))
Yer never haughty thought right now contest
We broke this good smoke this we gonna lose
Remember me never please make us free yeah
Always the skill still we fought for our lives (our lies)((our times))
Lights up again never enough water all around
Built this up this body this time
But I can’t build this again (you built it again)
But I can’t build this again (you willed it from wind)
But I aye aye why why (you will you will you win)
On the floor all around sound and future fled
Broke my count my promises thought it forever
Hold your breath one time one more time now here
Lemme scratch this one out different this time
Some time backward somewhere with me again
So thank yous and styles and lists there You are
Wherever You are I'm starting to think You heard
Career creation rain merely and most to sleep
It was like a lot and a lot alike
Loved at clouds some how.
So summer after summer for summer after
And we're all spinnin on together
And we're all in the sky we are the sky
There you go for somebody
Everyday almost someday never
And hear his him he he's waiting eating aching
Wander wonder wander for ever very eager
Yeah? Same
Back? Now
Master? Myself
Friend? Much
These places all across China. Packed bags. Long drives.
Saturdays in Los Angeles and You sat there said I left
I know this much knowing I could knowing he could
He me they them never take them back for knowing You could
He did his best but he wouldn't and same
You had friends too waiting for You upstairs but You wouldn't say so
Three years and I'm still in my car and I'm still me in the rearview
No cliffs in this scratching just deep-ass breaths breathe
Imagine. Carry on. Keep up. Dance.
Another Summer. Dance. Los Angeles. Dance. New Orleans.
Dance. Winter. Make music again. Dance. Busy. Sane. Create.
How far it has taken me this time.
I'm sincerely safe sincerely thank You.
Never enough but I'm grateful for You
This is my story but I ain't always good
That's the thing about bikin, see?
I can't even lie, not to you I can't
There're big parts of this job where you can get philosophical
But your thoughts are always alright by me, see?
If the car if the ground if the sky if the clouds
If the water if the wake if the flood if the end
Then you gotta take my hand you gotta come back
To live this life to love these dreams I dreamt
Don't talk to me about real ends
I'll keep shut this time if that's what you need (this time this time)
Always close by always scared eventually
Eventually eventually I'm going to find you
What's another year? What's another hotel bed?
What's another curtain pulled tight over me eyes? Remember me remembering you
The last time she ate?
Some time last night
Is that right?
We talkin bout last night
All right
— FO
Day so long got me all up in my head
Say Why've I been wastin' my light again
Say Why've I worried over little little everythings
You worryin your hair and the world fallin down all around all around
I was just a boy you was a girl in the water
Seventeen golden days and we counted down them all down
Nobody could touch us when we was good so good
Leave us be leave it be leave it leave it for me
When I went away I went and made it
I been high and so low but I went and made it
Don't look too close here don't ask too much
Holding this note so tight like everyone wanna steal it
My name was written in lights before it all went out
But what's left here in my hands will save both of us
It's a very very nice park here
Under our feet out over our heads all around
It's a very nice breeze and very nice clouds and ducks and duck things
You and me me and you bigger better ever since now
Rollin down golden paths with our very own sunsets
And then walk it in reverse the sun crawlin back up hello hello
You gift me this when my pockets nothing but emptiness
And my heart so heavy falls in'a me in'a me fall fall fallin
But you know I'll get you soon you know I good fuck me
No no I know you know I good even if I know nothing right now
Real ass trees real ass flowers they got names names they gotta be
Just like me just like you like every nice day and every color cloud too
They want me and they want from me and they want but you know I good
You know I good we just walking here here here what you wanna do
All used up in another borrowed bed
Another late night another cold snap
Flick flick flick every lighter's cashed
So many second-hand lives inside inside me
I'm inside the water again gotta break this
Done wastin' my life I gotta make this
Half full and half again gonna take this
Straight through through the circle this time
Pirated golden hours, gleaming stones glow
Feet glidin' across silver surfaces above me,
Spiders tap-tappin' silk webs softly singing
Lullabies on heavy eyes heavy sighs
Hope come morning I'll still be me
Hope come morning I'm everybody everybody
I’m ready for a new Frank Ocean album.
— Trevor N
S'alright s'alright we're gonna channel the end
Cuz we can see good 20-20 all lit up
Phones up, eyes up, hands up, cruise
Riding nobody average no more we bridging
I might be there I might not Maybe I might
A fist, a gold chain, reminders, places I was gonn be
And foggin over everything and everywhere
My lips wet figure still a melted circle
But I got this seeing both sides being both sides talking both sides
Coco's def bullshit but I built something and I'll build again
In the studio again in the car again in the water again
But the sun even'd out in all this haze gotta be good enough this time
Two times three times lost and found and lost again
Its not the sword its not the water its what I'm holdin here
— Jamie P
Fallin inta birdsong song singing highways
So so aged these buildings rise up everywhere
Every day every night every day
So so angled to eights and digging my sidelong self
Dayless notes crumpled gifts in the gutter
Feel nightful by noon but nothing gaining
See that seeing and sawing grass slides
These raindrops glitter my forehead
This sunshine on dappled down my fingers
Glazelong figure a fine time this time
It’s only awkward if I forget me forgetting you
In the water again forgetting you
A circle of melted ice forgetting you
Circles of fire gonna light my way
I'm ready for a new Frank Ocean album.
— Alex G
In the water again, in Philly again
Something like fog glittering my skin, glitter on yours
Something like this and this
And you telling me about the Sword again
I can barely keep my head up
Something like this and this (and this and this and this)
Walking round this closed down town solo and not
It was morning in Milan, I was blinded in Bhutan, it was afternoon in Atlanta, I hustled in Helsinki, it was evening in Camden and I was gone gone gone in Gulf Shores
I was new in New Orleans
I was new in Houston
I was new coast to coast and another and another
I ain't new no more
Nobody calls me Frank no more.
No more no more no more no more.
I’m ready for a new Frank Ocean album.
— Kiki
In the water again, in all your love
Circle of fire them circle of ice
Another morning in Milan
Like muscle memory and memory foam and lovely little Spanish plates
Breathe what it’ll be and what it was
Deserted corners after all the clubs are closed
Waiting for the car, waiting for a call
Why don’t you text me no more?
What was this, what am I, what’s going on, classic, classic
Cuz I know you what you wanna know, I know what you need to feel
This time a’ day / This time a’ night
Every day everyday
Always there for you vs. never sighted
In the future we are free
