 Genius Lyrics
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Blood Orange – Saint
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[Verse: Aaron Maine & BEA1991] / I got to see you live for more / You said it before / You wish I'd seen the saint you were before / Your skin's a flag that shines for us all / You
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Blood Orange – Augustine
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The song is partly a reference to Saint Augustine, an African Bishop of Hippo, born in 354, who was a great writer; 5 million of his words still survive today, the most famous
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Blood Orange – Saint Samples
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See all of “Saint” by Blood Orange’s samples, covers, remixes, interpolations and live versions
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Read All The Lyrics To Blood Orange’s ‘Negro Swan’
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The album features contributions from A$AP Rocky, Steve Lacy, Janet Mock, Tei Shi & Puff Daddy.
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Blood Orange (Ft. BennY RevivaL) – Seven Hours Part 1
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[Pre-Chorus] / Rewind the forces / Take it back to what's, and rewind the forces / Take it back to what's, and rewind the, rewind the, rewind the forces / Take it back to what's
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Blood Orange – Take Your Time
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[Verse 1: Devonté Hynes] / Take your time, it's all you've ever known / And nothing gets complete when you're home / I pull you up so far / You can't keep placing yourself below
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Blood Orange – God Bless (Original Ending)
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[Verse] / There are so many times when I just need a hug / When I need way more than a listening ear of a friend / Being in hospital after I was raped, and I had no one / No one to
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Blood Orange (Ft. Ian Isiah) – Holy Will
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[Verse 1: Ian Isiah, & Ian Isiah, Eva & Devonté Hynes] / Lord, I just wanna be / Rooted and grounded in thee / Lord, place me / Lord Jesus, place me, yeah / I wanna be centered in
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Blood Orange (Ft. Diddy & Tei Shi) – Hope
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[Intro: Devonté Hynes] / Follow that sea / Chase what you know / Cover your weave / Jump in the flow / [Verse 1: Tei Shi & Puff Daddy] / Yo, yeah, yo / Uh, uh, uh / Is this the way
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Blood Orange – Seven Hours Part 1 Samples
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See all of “Seven Hours Part 1” by Blood Orange’s samples, covers, remixes, interpolations and live versions
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Freya Ridings – Blood Orange
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[Intro] / Woo-ooh, woo-ooh / Woo-ooh, woo-ooh / Woo-ooh, woo-ooh / Now / [Verse 1] / All the nights that I give, clinging on with fingertips / To the love that never brings me no
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Blood Orange – Squash Squash
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[Chorus] / You chose to fade away with him / I chose to try and let you in / You chose to fade away with him / I chose to try and let you in / [Verse 1] / Making out that you’re
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Blood Orange – Orlando
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[Verse 1: Devonté Hynes] / Dreaming Orlando, get it? / Give it time / Walked these steps before / Sixteen-year-old boy / Confused and knowing that he's different, he wants to give
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Blood Orange – With Him
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“With Him,” the fifth track off Freetown Sound is a saxophone ballad inspired by Dev Hynes' friend’s experience with a cocaine overdose. The song samples the 1994 documentary “
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Blood Orange – Vulture Baby
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[Verse] / Give it some time / See how it goes / She'll change her mind / Go past the goals / Home is ahead / Homies are close / Sometimes the gods / Just answer hope, ooh
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Blood Orange – But You
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Dev explained the meaning behind this song in an interview with the NY Times:
“But You” is interesting. It’s actually about walking down a street, and me trying to work out what
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Blood Orange – Love Ya
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“Love Ya” finds Devonté exploring elements of his heritage. It features an interpolation, performed by Zuri Marley, of Eddy Grant’s “Come On Let Me Love You” who grew up in
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Blood Orange – Smoke
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[Intro] / See, on me / [Verse 1] / Balance in my hair, I'm pretty as fuck, ay, ay / Choosing what you wear and getting this far / Tricking on my own time, what is it worth? / Got
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Blood Orange – Juicy 1-4
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[Verse 1] / Seen it all before / Could this take too long? / A prayer's all you need / And it's all that was told to me / Stripped of all that's left / Tell me what is right / And
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Blood Orange (Ft. Ava Raiin) – Thank You
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[Hook: Ava Raiin] / Thank you for the promise of your faith / Thank you for your all your praise / Even if you promise me away / Out of your gaze escape / [Verse: Blood Orange
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Blood Orange – Charcoal Baby
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“Charcoal Baby” is the first single from Blood Orange’s new album, Negro Swan. It was released on July 26, 2018.
The song was already played live when Blood Orange was opening up
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Blood Orange – Chance
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[Intro] / Genesis, chapter eleven, verse ten / Explains the genealogy of Shem / Shem was a black man, in Africa / If you repeat this fact, they can't laugh at ya / [Verse 1] / Seem
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Blood Orange – I Know
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[Intro] / I can never force your way / The way you speak about your face / I know that it's not mine to change / Know that it's not mine to change / How can I be unafraid / When
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Blood Orange (Ft. Janet Mock) – Family
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[Interlude: Janet Mock] / You asked me what family is / And I think of family as community / I think of the spaces where you don't have to shrink yourself / Where you don't have to
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Blood Orange (Ft. Steve Lacy) – Out of Your League
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[Chorus] / Follow me under and never to be too unique / Definitely a trap, she'll get ya body and you're starting to feel weak / Maybe a thing that you wanted is all that you need
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Blood Orange – Nappy Wonder
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[Verse 1] / Dreaming of the place / Bring myself away / Like in Barking days / Scared my fears away / No one to complain / Baby, what's the grade? / [Pre-Chorus] / I'm riding
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Blood Orange (Ft. A$AP Rocky & Project Pat) – Chewing Gum
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“Chewing Gum” features Project Pat and also marks the second collaboration between Blood Orange and A$AP Rocky, following Testing’s “Hun43rd”.
This sense of exhaustion is
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Blood Orange – Hands Up
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[Verse] / Do you ever try and face yourself, goodnight / Or is it easier with your friend? / Pretend your friend's enough to end / You were just another loudmouth, cute-faced girl
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Blood Orange (Ft. Georgia Anne Muldrow) – Runnin'
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[Verse: Devonté Hynes] / Demons on my neck, neck / Summer take a toll / Lamp in my eyes shined bright on my soul / Girls awful wet, slip, fall, break the pain / And the same
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Blood Orange (Ft. Ashlee Haze) – By Ourselves
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“By Ourselves” Is the intro track off Blood Orange’s thirdLP, Freetown Sound.
This song samples Ashlee Haze’s poem “For Colored Girls,” a tribute to Missy Elliot’s and her
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Blood Orange – Dagenham Dream
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[Verse: Devonté Hynes] / We received our bloody circles in the mail / Only see what's really important when it's nailed / As a teen, my Lord and savior was a male / Tightened truss
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Blood Orange (Ft. Nelly Furtado) – Hadron Collider
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A dreamy, soft-spoken, and melodic duet, “Hadron Collider” was borne out of an impromptu collaboration between Nelly Furtado and Dev Hynes.
Furtado and Hynes first met through
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Blood Orange – Desirée
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[Spoken Intro: Venus Xtravaganza, Unidentified Woman, & Jennie Livingston] / ...later because of the fact that we're waiting for the working girls to get there / And what is it
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Read All The Lyrics To Blood Orange’s New Album ‘Freetown Sound’
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With appearances from Empress Of, Ta-Nehisi Coates, Carly Rae Jepsen and more.
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Blood Orange (Ft. Carly Rae Jepsen) – Better Than Me
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Dev dedicated this album to the marginalised in society on his Instagram in the lead-up to the album’s release.
The track features guest vocals from pop singer Carly Rae Jepsen
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