Songs
Artists
Genres
Track cover Not What’s Going On

Not What’s Going On

2:54Album Kicking My Feet 2025-10-17

More songs by Ruel

  1. Dandelion
      3:22
  2. I Can Die Now
      2:51
  3. I Can Die Now
      2:51
  4. The Suburbs
      3:08
  5. Wild Guess
      2:46
  6. Not What’s Going On
      2:54
All songs

Description

Sometimes the past creeps up without warning - not like a dramatic finale, but like an awkward encounter in the yard, where it smells of wet grass and old conversations. It seems like everything has already been lived through, let go, sorted out, but suddenly your heart decides to reissue the past. A new cover, the same plot, only now it's a little embarrassing that it still hurts.

This song is like a glance that you try not to catch, but still feel with your skin. It trembles with that very “it seems to be over,” but with a slight aftertaste of unfulfilled dreams. And somewhere between “it's all in the past” and “what if,” life flares up again - awkward, stubborn, and so alive that you want to pretend it's just a coincidence.

Lyrics and translation

Original

Doctrinate

Hotel is in proximate

I'm still in my proxy state

Been animated, a fox in space

I like being the shit, it can constipate

Got rid of clothes, I'm a hostage

Money? I lost it, I had to concentrate

I'm going up at a constant rate

I'm still in the estate, I'm a consulate

Regime deep

ANPR, not an APB

Orangutan and A-P-E

Full of propaganda, like a state TV

Snakes gossiping, though if you hate me, speak

Elevators, I got lazy feet

Labels talk while paying me P's

White complex, can they save me? Save me, please

Animated

War crimes coming exaggerated

I see get-rich schemes, then I'm salivating

And the naval boat isn't navigating

Murky with the alligators

And it's not the stairs, it's the elevators

Just like us, they wanna impose sanctions

LOL, Damson? That's not validated

Soldiers die without purpose, peace ain't on Earth, it's beyond the clouds

I'm done offering all this service, he can't roll 'cause he ain't allowed

It's up, but the energy's down

Disinformation, they aim for the mouth

They wanna coup d'état on the state

Like Chile, they coup d'état in the South

Regime deep

ANPR, not an APB

Orangutan and A-P-E

Full of propaganda, like a state TV

Snakes gossiping, though if you hate me, speak

Elevators, I got lazy feet

Labels talk while paying me P's

White complex, can they save me? Save me, please

Regime deep

ANPR, not an APB

Orangutan and A-P-E

Full of propaganda, like a state TV

Snakes gossiping, though if you hate me, speak

Elevators, I got lazy feet

Labels talk while paying me P's

White complex, can they save me? Save me, please

Decolonisation

I'm on a yacht boat, migrating

Sorry, I'm back from a hiatus

Couldn't keep his girl, she was high maintenance

Tryna get rich quick, but the time's taken

Donations, like I'm Prime Reagan

Tryna find that boy, like the Fire Nation

And they spin in my circle, gyrating

Rumors fade, but the facts just stay, I don't care what you say about me

My girl don't like some of the bullshit, man, she don't play about me

Mutiny on the estate, backstabbed, seen the betray around me

Only up, no way around me

Black or white, but it's grey around me

Regime deep

ANPR, not an APB

Orangutan and A-P-E

Full of propaganda, like a state TV

Snakes gossiping, though if you hate me, speak

Elevators, I got lazy feet

Labels talk while paying me P's

White complex, can they save me? Save me, please

Le collège aussi continue de s'en aller

Et de s'en aller pour la famille

Combattants de l'indépendance, aujourd'hui victorieux

Je vous salue au nom du gouvernement congolais

Watch video Ruel - Not What’s Going On

Track statistics:

Streams Spotify

Chart positions Spotify

Chart peaks

Views YouTube

Chart positions Apple Music

Shazams Shazam

Chart positions Shazam