More songs by Leon Thomas
Description
Everything here sounds like a nighttime chronicle of the golden youth - glittering cards, club smoke, cars until morning, and mild amnesia in the morning. The words are like screenshots of conversations, mixing complaints, confessions, and memes. There is no attempt to justify oneself in these lines, only a statement of fact: some people know how to play, destroy, and put things back together, while others find themselves back where they were the night before.
The beats are soft, with a predatory glitch, as if this glittering world of gloss and flights to Dubai is parodying itself. The song smells of expensive perfume left on a T-shirt and melancholy hidden behind a hoarse “sha-ha-oh.” Beautiful, bold, unfiltered - an honest sketch of how luxury and emptiness dance the same dance.
Lyrics and translation
Original
Sha-ah-oh-oh (oh, baby)
Sha-ah-oh-oh (oh, baby)
Sha-ah-oh-oh (ah-da-da-da-da-da-da)
Sha-ah, oh, babe
I left my AmEx at the bar last night
Don't know how I called a car
I must've stumbled at and landed in your place
I guess it wasn't too far
I always find the opportunity for mistake
That hit me hard the next day
When you pull up the memory and erase
'Cause that's just how you are
Wrote all these songs about you
And you never even said a word
Not even just a single word
I guess "congrats" is your least favorite word
And if you know you had my heart
Could never finish what you started
You love to pick my world apart
But that's just how you are, are, are
But that's just how you are, are, are
But that's just how you are, are, are
But that's just how you are, are, are
Nobu Atlantis in Dubai
You've been there more than a few times
Arousing my suspicion
At least you live a life worth living (a life worth living)
Still young
Never made bad decisions
Ain't nobody trippin'
Maybe them other niggas playing victim, mm
And this ain't my first rodeo
I was fuckin' vixens way before the fame
Giving models X before Tesla came (oh)
Wrote all these songs about you
And you never even said a word
Not even just a single word
I guess "congrats" is your least favorite word (my world)
And if you know you have my heart (oh-oh)
Could never finish what you started
You love to pick my world apart (my world)
But that's just how you are, are, are
But that's just how you are, are, are
But that's just how you are, are, are
But that's just how you are, are, are