 Genius Lyrics
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Frank Ocean – Self Control
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“Self Control” is a slow ballad which features Frank describing a relationship that is slowly falling apart. Throughout the song, Frank hints the reason their relationship fell
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Frank Ocean – Novacane
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“Novacane,“ the lead single from Frank Ocean’s debut mixtape nostalgia,ULTRA., describes what it’s like to have sex while on drugs, and it details the relationship between Ocean
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Frank Ocean – Street Fighter
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This introduction to Frank Ocean’s debut mixtape, Nostalgia, ULTRA, is titled after the Street Fighter game series. The first game in the series came out in 1987, the same year
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Frank Ocean – Bad Religion
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Frank Ocean initiates a makeshift therapy session in the backseat of a cab on this sorrowful track.
The night channel ORANGE was released on iTunes, Frank premiered this song on
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Frank Ocean – Not Just Money
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This is actually just one of Frank’s friend’s mom, Rosie Watson, scolding him. The homie recorded it (cuz it’s just too damn funny) and gave it to Frank to use on the album
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Frank Ocean – Pretty Sweet
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“Pretty Sweet” marks one of the bolder moments on Frank Ocean’s sophomore album Blonde, with an initially unsettling change of pace where Frank is singing wildly over a chaotic
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Frank Ocean – Dust
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“Dust” is a love song. Frank is letting his guard down and allows himself to move forward with his life.
“Dust” appears on the nostalgia, ULTRA mixtape.
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Frank Ocean – There Will Be Tears
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Frank sings about the emotional heartache he suffered from his absent father growing up and the death of the only father figure he ever had, his grandfather.
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JAY-Z (Ft. Frank Ocean) – Oceans
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In a video preview Jay explains the meaning behind the song. “It sounds like a celebration of where we are now on some big yacht, throwing champagne in the water,” he tells Rick
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Frank Ocean – White Ferrari
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The heartbreaking “White Ferrari” features great emotional depth as the track speaks volumes about love and permanence.
In December 2015, Canadian DJ and producer A-Trak started
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Frank Ocean – Swim Good
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This is the tenth track on Frank’s debut mixtape, nostalgia,ULTRA.
It also bears remarkable similarities to Kanye West’s album 808’s and Heartbreak, even referencing it at one
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Frank Ocean – Facebook Story
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“Facebook Story” is a skit where real and digital life meet but cannot be distinguished from each other. French producer SebastiAn recalls how his relationship fell apart over
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Frank Ocean – Nikes
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“Nikes” is a critique of the trappings of materialistic hedonism, with a frequent mention of Nike shoes, shiny gold and glitter, and fantasies of pleasure. The video version of
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Frank Ocean – Soul Calibur
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Along with StreetFighter (1987) and Goldeneye (1997), Soul Calibur(1995) is another interlude referencing an old nostalgic video game.
Frank has referenced video games throughout
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Frank Ocean – We All Try
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On “We All Try,” the conflict presented is between optimism and cynicism. Two verses: what he believes (verse one) and what he does not (verse two).
Frank affirms the optimistic
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Frank Ocean – Nature Feels
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Frank soulfully warbles to us over the trippy production of MGMT’s song “Electric Feel.”
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Frank Ocean – Lonny (New Mix)
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“Lonny (New Mix)” is a track by Frank Ocean, fittingly released on the informal mixtape The Lonny Breaux Collection.
In the song, Frank has been gone for a long time and doesn’t
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Frank Ocean – Moon River
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Frank dropped this song on his YouTube account “Blonded” and his Tumblr with the caption “in the late nite” by surprise the night after Valentine’s Day 2018.
The song is a cover
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Frank Ocean – Sideways
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“Sideways” is the 13th track on Frank Ocean’s 2016 visual album Endless.
The production on this track is credited to Brooklyn, New York-based musician & producer Nolife, who
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Frank Ocean – Solo
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On “Solo,” Frank touches on various aspects of being alone, such as self-love or waiting for a call from your lover. It’s not entirely clear if this song is specifically about
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Frank Ocean – Nights
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“Nights” tells the story of Ocean’s previous relationship, detailing the highs and lows they both faced while dating. It also touches upon the events Frank faced while living in
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Frank Ocean (Ft. Skepta) – Little Demon
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“Little Demon” was first previewed by Frank in November of 2018, with a video of the track posted on his Instagram story. He then played an updated version of the the whole track
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Frank Ocean – Quickly
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“Quickly” is a demo track by Frank Ocean, included on the unofficial Lonny Breaux Collection.
Frank wrote this song for John Legend’s Evolver album.
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Frank Ocean – Lovecrimes
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Lovecrimes is about the crazy behavior and situations that love and lust can often lead to. Frank repeatedly sings about “murder”, which seems to refer to abortion in this extended
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Frank Ocean – In Here Somewhere
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“In Here Somewhere” is a ballad on the finality of life, and how we should cherish every moment we have with our loved ones.
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Frank Ocean – Mine
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“Mine” is the fourth track on Ocean’s visual album Endless. It’s one of the shortest tracks on the album, running for roughly thirty seconds.
The song itself is a repeated phrase
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Frank Ocean – Blue Whale
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An album outtake from Frank, produced with Pharrell Williams and detailing his maturity, hometown and rise to fame.
The blue whale is the largest animal that ever lived
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Frank Ocean – Truce
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“Truce” is a track by Frank Ocean, included on The Lonny Breaux Collection.
In the song, Frank tells the tale of a couple who are standing in the middle of a self-induced war that
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Frank Ocean – Old Terror
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“Old Terror” is a track by Frank Ocean, included on his informal mixtape The Lonny Breaux Collection.
It’s an upbeat song in which Frank tries to deal with his immature lover, but
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Frank Ocean – Close To You / Never Can Say Goodbye Medley
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[Part I: Close To You] / I’ll be honest / I wasn’t devastated / But you could’ve / Held my hands through it baby / Let my mind / Run underneath warms jets, jet-jets / I run my
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Frank Ocean – Mitsubishi Sony
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“Mitsubishi Sony” is the final track on Frank Ocean’s visual album, Endless. The song is one of the more conventional on the album, featuring Ocean rapping over trap beats.
NME
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Frank Ocean – Easy
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“Easy” is an unreleased track by Frank. The lyrics of the track were published on one of the pages of Boys Don’t Cry magazine, alongside the magazine version of the track “
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Frank Ocean – In My Room
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“In My Room” is the second single released by Frank Ocean in 2019, following “DHL” released in October. The track came as an unannounced surprise to his fans early Saturday morning
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Frank Ocean (Ft. Earl Sweatshirt) – Super Rich Kids
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Continuing a major theme on the album, Frank evokes the lux and glamorous like no other (see “Sweet Life” and “Lost”). Only “Super Rich Kids” is a bit more harrowing—there’s
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Frank Ocean (Ft. Diplo, Mick Jones & Paul Simonon) – Hero
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Another installment of Converse’s Three Artists, One Song series, which has seen people from Gorillaz, to Andre 3000, to Soulja Boy collaborate with each other. All the tracks can
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Kaash Paige – Frank Ocean
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[Verse 1] / What got you thinkin' this type of way? Yeah / You've been on my mind all of the fuckin' time / Uh, oh, oh / So slow mo' (Uh, oh, oh) / Writin' all these love songs for
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Frank Ocean – Seigfried
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“Seigfried,” the fifteenth track on Frank Ocean’s Blonde, might be called a metaphysical break-up song. Based on the mention of “a speckled face”, the song may be about male model
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Frank Ocean – Florida
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“Florida” is the fourteenth track on Ocean’s visual album, Endless.
The track is one of the shortest on the project, running for roughly 30 seconds. It features transcendental
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Frank Ocean – Open Air
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“Open Air” is a track by Frank Ocean, included on his fan-assembled mixtape The Lonny Breaux Collection.
The song refers to making love in “the open air,” far away from the girl’s
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Mir Fontane – Frank Ocean
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[Chorus] / Lately I been wonderin' why you don't play my shit / Claim you been a fan since I got beats from Soundclick / But every time I see you, you play Drake's old shit / J
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Frank Ocean (Ft. Tyler, The Creator) – End/Golden Girl
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“End” serves as the closer to Frank Ocean’s debut studio album channel ORANGE on streaming services, while the CD version includes the hidden track “Golden Girl,” featuring Tyler
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Frank Ocean – PDA [Demo]
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“PDA” is an unreleased song by Frank Ocean, apparently written for the Backstreet Boys‘ 2009 album This Is Us. The song was the seventh track on that album.
Download the leaked
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Frank Ocean – Heartbreak + Jetlag
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This is the third track on the Unreleased, MISC mixtape by Frank Ocean, a compilation of Frank Ocean songs that were made during the Nostalgia ULTRA era
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Frank Ocean – Holly Baby
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“Holly Baby” is a song by Frank Ocean, informally released as a part of The Lonny Breaux Collection.
The track’s about a girl named Holly, who represents Hollywood. Frank sings
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Frank Ocean – Lost
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“Lost” is the fourth single from Frank Ocean’s critically acclaimed debut studio album, Channel Orange.
The protagonist in the song is a drug supplier who uses his girlfriend as a
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Frank Ocean – Impietas + Deathwish (ASR)
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“Impietas + Deathwish (ASR)” is the fifteenth track on Ocean’s Endless project.
The latter section of this track, Deathwish, finds Frank questioning his trust in a relationship
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