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Lay Up

Ella Mai
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Nov. 18, 20161 viewer47.9K views

Lay Up Lyrics

[Intro]
Mustard on the beat, ho!

[Verse 1]
Roll with it all you gotta do is roll with it
Let me into your system baby yeah, roll with it

Said I got what you missing
You ain't gotta go get it when I pull up with that work for you baby come get it

[Pre-Chorus]
You been on my mind ever since
Need to relax, sit back and let it sink
Stimulate our minds away in every kind of way
And blow the stress away, ain't gotta think

[Chorus]
Let's take a trip up to the island and just lay up
A private flight up for the night gon' take us way up
Just the two of us no one else invited
Baby jump right in
Let's take a trip up to the island and just lay up
Said baby you know I know how to take us way up
Just the two of us no one else invited
Baby jump right in

[Verse 2]
But go slow with it, get a hold in it
Don't you let me take control in it

Take control in it
Said you know I got that dope and the shit that go with it
Treat my body like a boat, baby, flow in it, oh
[Pre-Chorus]
You been on my mind ever since
Need to relax, sit back and let it sink
Stimulate our minds away in every kind of way
Come blow your stress away, ain't gotta think

[Chorus]
Let's take a trip up to the island and just lay up
A private flight up for the night gon' take us way up
Just the two of us no one else invited
Baby jump right in
Let's take a trip up to the island and just lay up
Said baby you know I know how to take us way up
Just the two of us no one else invited
Baby jump right in

[Bridge]
No rules, no plans, this is all for us
Put your phone down, boy, ain't time to chill
'Cause I want you to work up on this
Turn up on this, late nights early morning
Trip out to the island and just lay up
Take a min out the game, you the player
Unravel me boy all these layers
And we go at it again an hour later

[Chorus]
Let's take a trip up to the island and just lay up, lay up
A private flight up for the night gon' take us way up, way up
Just the two of us no one else invited
Baby jump right in
Let's take a trip up to the island and just lay up, lay up
Said baby you know I know how to take us way up, way up
Just the two of us no one else invited
Baby jump right in

[Outro]
Just when I thought I couldn't love again, you changed me

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Ella Mai
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The moment that I was inspired to write “Lay Up” is also when I heard the beat. “Royalty” by Chris Brown had come out not too long before. And “Blow It in the Wind” is one of my favorite songs. It was one of those carefree let-your-hair-down type of songs. I heard this beat, and I was like, “We can have so much fun with this.” And it was the same type of “Let’s have fun. Let your hair down and not really think about anything.”

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