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Tell me why did you leave so fast?
Would you mind if I hold your hand tonight?
What are you afraid of anyway?
I'm not coming back, it's now or never
Now or never
You made me worse or, you made me better
It's now or never
Hold up, said, it's now or never Flyboy Tarantino, Craig Xen & KidWay – Now or Never
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Flyboy Tarantino, Craig Xen, and KidWay each sing about a lover that abandons them. They warn them that if they don’t come back now, they’ll never have a relationship again.

Additionally, some of the word choices indicate that they are referring to the late XXXTENTACION.

“Tell me why did you leave so fast” could relate to X’s murder in June 2018. Moreover, “What are you afraid of anyway” seems to be a reference to X’s December 2018 track “what are you so afraid of.”

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In this part I think is a Nice nod to Bryan Adams and his hit song “Summer of ‘69”. In the song, the following lyrics show great resemblance, “Oh, and when you held my hand
I knew that it was now or never
Those were the best days of my life”.

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Dive with us, vibe with us
Imbibe with the tide Lupe Fiasco – WAV Files
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To imbibe is to assimilate, so Lupe is saying to become one with the water. This line can be seen as the water talking directly to the slaves, as it becomes personified in the following lines.

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It's time to face the facts, you treat me like a snack
Only text back when you're hungry Billie Eilish – ​another stupid song
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Billie uses a boy craving a snack as a metaphor for how she personally gets treated. Much like a boy would typically only go get a snack when he’s hungry, the boy in question only texts Billie when he wants something from her.

The word “snack” is also slang for describing an attractive person.

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If you need me, wanna see me
Better hurry 'cause I'm leavin' soon Billie Eilish – ​listen before i go
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Having more depth than a typical love song about heartbreak, this song flips standard love song tropes about “leaving” and makes them darker, slyly referencing an impending suicide attempt. Thus, this chorus can be referencing both an impending breakup and an impending suicide.

The reference to suicide is backed by the chilling lines in Verse 1:

I wanna see the world when I stop breathing
Turning blue

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Billie has also said and in an interview that she was in a hotel room by herself and it was a window and she was crying and said she was going to jump but she started to think about her mom and that stopped her from jumping out of the window.

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look billie I neva want you to die and I want you to live for a long time you might here this all the time but I’m your biggest fan like the biggest ❤❤❤❤😣 so much love fyi I want you everywhere I go so I listen to you all the time love you you understand me but my mom doesn’t ❤❤

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“Sorry can’t save me now”, and “Sorry there’s no way out but down ‘ is implying that she’s been hurt and if he/she says sorry it doesn’t matter because she knows that if she commits suicide she will go to hell but she feels like this is the only way to get out of this situation which we call life

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So often, the deep depression that leads to an attempt or a suicide could be as a result of making tremendous sacrifices for others at your own expense. It seems Billie has removed the burden of sacrifice and has placed the burden on others around her. She’s so used to people needing her or asking for favors that she’s finally saying, “I won’t delay any longer. The onus is on you to make it.”

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The prechorus and chorus could also allude to her suicide attempt as something that has already happened and she’s taking her last breaths – “i’m leaving soon”.
Thus, “sorry can’t save me now […] sorry there’s no way out but down” – there is nothing anyone can do to to save her as she’s already dying, all they can do is watch her die as that is the only path left for her. She is sorry for leaving them no choice and she doesn’t know how to make it better or turn back time.

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“sorry can’t save me now” refers to her saying the person on the rooftop with her can’t apologize for the things they have done because he emotional damage is already done

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Using sorry over and over could show how she feels like everything is all her fault and she can’t escape that. ‘Sorry can’t save me now’ could be a message to people in her past who have said things to her which have had an effect on her saying that saying sorry won’t fix everything

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There’s no way out but down could imply that she feels like there is no other escape but to jump of the roof top she was previously taken too

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Lights out
You're not here holding me
I count
Every tear down my cheek
Instead of sheep Billie Eilish – BLUE
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Like many people in the world, Billie seems to be struggling with some form of Nighttime Depression. When in a sensory deprived room such as one you would attempt to sleep in, it is all too common for one’s mind to overthink their problems since there is nothing else to focus on.

“Counting sheep” is a common task taught to many people to stop their mind from racing at night, allowing them to fall sleep. Billie compares this task to counting the tears that run down her cheek at night.

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Kam Davis is an up-and-coming rapper from Louisville, KY. His first official track quickly grew to over 500 Plays on Spotify shortly after its release and his first official project Midnight Affairs EP is expected to release in 2019.

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Rain drop Wayne and the Bangkok love bills Lupe Fiasco (Ft. Nikki Jean) – Sun God Sam & The California Drug Deals
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Lupe makes reference to Lil Wayne’s huge association with rain/tear drops, slyly referencing both the hit Fat Joe and Lil Wayne song, “Make it Rain”, and the tattoos of tear drops on his face.

Much like Wayne makes it rain in the aforementioned video, (“Ho”) money rains into Thailand, especially Bangkok.

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Like a nigga water whip, I'ma get it crackin' Kodak Black – This Forever
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“Water whipping” is a slang term for cooking crack. To “get it crackin'” is a slang term that simply shows you’re about to make something happen. Kodak plays with the aforementioned dual meaning of the word “crack”, comparing his ability to make things happen to that of a crack cook’s ability to make his product.

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It’s also a play on a cracken, a fictional water monster ?

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Shang Tsung, gang ton, how I took ya'll ways Lupe Fiasco – I Got A New Mic
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Lupe references the shape-shifting mastermind Shang Tsung from Mortal Kombat. Lupe is historically known as a fan of fighting games, mentioning Street Fighter on his track “Gold Watch”:

I love Street Fighter 2, I just really hate Zangief
Only Ken and Ryu, I find it hard to beat Blanka

Shang Tsung is known for being a stealer of souls; something Lupe slyly mentions that he does himself in this line.

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Cut from a different cloth, I'm a different fabric
They wanna see the day that I go polyester
I ain't never stop thuggin', I'm like this forever Kodak Black – This Forever
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To be “cut from a different cloth” is to have a different makeup than that of a normal human. Polyester is a synthetic cloth fabric, meaning it’s fake. Kodak knows people expect him him to switch up now that he has fame, but he plans on staying true to his self.

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To “go polyester” also implies that he would be turning soft. Kodak doesn’t plan on turning soft because he would rather keep thugging

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