Doo-Wah Lyrics

[Hook]
You fixed the present to the past
‘Cause you wanted it to last

You overdose some memories
Makes your mind so empty

So give up the act, you know we’re through
And there is nothing left to do
You found that I’m tracking nothing new
And that’s why I am telling you
No, no, no, no, no, no, no I never will go
And I know, I know, I know, I know, I know, I know
That I never will know

[Verse 1: Vic Mensa]
Jimmy wishes he could have her back
But Jenny says she's had enough
He must have tried a hundred times
But something just ain't addin' up
She says all the times he lied
Would be hundreds if she'd add them up

He says shes a bitch and laughs
While all his homies dap him up

Now she goes back to school again
And he goes back to rappin' now

Heard she got a dude again
But you can't hear him laughin' now

See he's got women everywhere
He just isn't happy now
She just can't imagine
After everything that happened now
Now he back by himself now
Don't need nobody help now
Moment off a meltdown
But can't nobody tell now
See he just holds himself down
The drugs don't seem to help now
Used to hate the feeling
Really he just hates himself now
Don't feel the way he felt now
Sometimes he can't feel nothing at all
He stands tall
Just to hope he doesn't stumble and fall
Suspended in time
Like a clock stuck in the wall

Alone wishing' he had someone to call
Thinkin' I thought we'd be famous
Thought we'd be painless
But I learned my lesson
Learned my lesson
Learned to go through these changes
Go through these changes
And I earned my blessings
Earned my blessings

Man I thought we'd be famous
Thought we'd be painless
But I learned my lesson
Learned my lesson

Learned to go through these changes
Go through these changes
And I earned my blessings
Earned my blessings
Earned my

Earned my
Earned my
Earned my
Earned my blessings

When I was young I looked at my father
He told me truth will take you farther
And as you grow, oh it will get much harder
So hold on and tread the water
And he said
Remember your dreams
Remember your dreams
Remember your dreams
Remember your dreams
I thought we'd be famous
I Thought we'd be painless
But I learned my lesson
Learned my lesson
Learned to go through these changes
Go through these changes
And I earned my blessings
Earned my blessings

Man I thought we'd be famous
Thought we'd be painless
But I learned my lesson
Learned my lesson
Learned to go through these changes
Go through these changes
And I earned my blessings
Earned my blessings
Earned my

Earned my blessings

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Genius Annotation

The song is talking about a guy named Jimmy (possibly Vic Mensa, the male rapper of the group, because of the line that says “And he goes back to rappin' now”) who was dating a girl named Jenny. Eventually they broke up. While trying to get back with her, they fight and then later go on with their lives. He hears that she found someone else and is sad by it. He ends up going through depression and starts taking drugs. After a while though, the drugs effects don’t seem to help anymore. He spirals deeper and deeper into depression, feeling lonelier and lonelier as time went by, even starting to hate himself. He thought that he would become famous with her by her side, but he was wrong and he learned his lesson while earning his blessings. While he did become famous (in a sense), he lost his love. He was told from younger though, by his father, that it would be hard and that the truth would take him farther in life. So his dad told him to just endure the strife and pain and to remember his dreams no matter what happens.

Starting at about the four-minute mark, the song interpolates Where Is My Mind? by The Pixies.

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Release Date
October 29, 2012
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