Sara Lyrics: I laid on a dune, I looked at the sky / When the children were babies and played on the beach / You came up behind me, I saw you go by / You were always so close and still within
I’ve seen a person go to shows and raise a lighter app
But if you’re at my concert please don’t ever try that crap Watsky (Ft. K.Flay) – Tiny Glowing Screens, Part 1
But if you’re at my concert please don’t ever try that crap Watsky (Ft. K.Flay) – Tiny Glowing Screens, Part 1
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This shows how technology is replacing everything in our life, as well as showing a mirror to the chorus:
We’ll light the world with tiny glowing screens
That is, essentially, what lighter apps do. Fans are so immersed in their phones, they are missing out on what is directly in front of them.
If you are going to use a lighter at his shows, Watsky wants it to be a real lighter
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Tell Pluto it’s not a planet
And he’ll probably keep spinning in the same old way Watsky – Fireworks
And he’ll probably keep spinning in the same old way Watsky – Fireworks
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Pluto, which used to be the ninth planet in our solar system, was named a “dwarf planet” in 2006. This is because astronomers found multiple planets larger than Pluto beyond its orbit (Eris and Ceres).
Although its now considered a midget planet, it’s still spinning and not giving a fuck, just like Watsky when a hater gives him shit.
Cold pizza
Tie-dye shirts (Tie-dye shirts)
Broken hearts
Give'm here, give'm here
Hand me downs (Hand me downs)
Leftovers (Leftovers)
Sloppy seconds
Give'm here, give'm here Watsky – Sloppy Seconds
Tie-dye shirts (Tie-dye shirts)
Broken hearts
Give'm here, give'm here
Hand me downs (Hand me downs)
Leftovers (Leftovers)
Sloppy seconds
Give'm here, give'm here Watsky – Sloppy Seconds
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Had a thing for ya, even wrote the song "Dreams" for ya
‘Cause I had dreams for ya, thoughts of a ring for ya
Childish shit, you know child and shit
Anonymous flowers sent, you know coward shit J. Cole (Ft. Miguel) – Power Trip
‘Cause I had dreams for ya, thoughts of a ring for ya
Childish shit, you know child and shit
Anonymous flowers sent, you know coward shit J. Cole (Ft. Miguel) – Power Trip
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the concept of these first lines of this verse–“this is where i was temporarily living while i wrote a song for you”–is reminiscent of a Bob Dylan song in which he says “Staying up for days in the Chelsea Hotel
Writing “Sad Eyed Lady of the Lowlands” for you” (
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Scott Storch, the famous hip-hop producer, who has made hits such as “In Da Club” and “Make it Rain.” He also just recovered from bankruptcy and a cocaine addiction. When Asher Roth is bored, he calls up his fellow caucasion hip-hop mogul.
I got the fight of dobby or Muhammad Ali
But keep the peace like Talib Kwelli meets Mahatma Ghandi Frak – Hydraulic Fraking
But keep the peace like Talib Kwelli meets Mahatma Ghandi Frak – Hydraulic Fraking
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With a clever play on words and acronyms, Bada$$ compares himself to the skinny white BMX biker, Matt Hoffman, and the fat black rapper, Ricky Rozay. Like Hoffman, Bada$$ is adventurous and unorthodox. Like Ross, Bada$$ is a bawse.
(BMX refers to motocross biking)
(BMF refers to Ross' Lex Luger produced-single, Blowin' Money Fast)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n2MVzP4MaJ0
3 years
8 years
Austin
8 years
9 years
Oliver
10 years
Chris
11 years
Brian
11 years
11 years
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Gentrification, a problem that is really becoming imminent in Watsky’s hometown San Francisco (& the Bay in general), is a very hipster heavy issue. Such neighborhoods as the “Valencia District” which used to be authentic hispanic neighborhoods, are being overrun with hipster cafes and thrift shops.
Eating hot chips, like Takis, would literally and figuratively leave him “red handed”: caught in the act of perpetuating gentrification as well as having the food on his fingers.
Watsky is no stranger to hot chip dust—on the Guilty Pleasures version of his debut album, you can see red dust on his fingers.
He realizes he’s evolved into the hipsters he loathes. He’s asking to be put down like the bandit he is.
Watsky has also been caught red handed with the land specifically. Asking the listener to “make him a dead bandit” for stealing land also calls to mind the expansion of the Wild West, during which predominantly white settlers stole land from the native Americans (and many bandits were killed). Gentrification is just a modern day equivalent to manifest destiny.