Guess I'll li-li-li-li-live with a guilty conscience
Li-li-li-li-live with a guilty conscience
[Verse 1]
Lotta messed up nights, lotta letdowns
Lotta dumb words, bet you regret now
Lotta "I'm just seein' the best in you 'cause I want to"
Yeah, yeah, yeah
Lotta "Don't trust you on the weekends"
Hidin' pictures you're receivin'
Lotta runnin' from all the red and blue in the rear view
[Pre-Chorus]
I'll be wantin' you back till the cops stop callin'
Waist deep in the mess you started
'Cause I need you, darlin'
Is that wrong?
All my morals shot, even that don't faze me
Lovin' you batshit crazy
Kinda recklеss lately
If that's wrong
[Chorus]
Guess I'll li-li-li-li-live with a guilty consciеnce
Li-li-li-li-live with a guilty conscience
Lotta hotel rooms that you checked in (Yeah)
Lot of cryptic shit, second guessin' (Yeah)
Lotta, "I was gonna tell you, but didn't want to hurt you, babe" (No)
Had a good life, it got hijacked (Hijacked)
It was criminal to hurt me like that (Like that)
But I turn my cheek and I just don't care what my friends say, uh
[Pre-Chorus]
I'll be wantin' you back till the cops stop callin'
Waist deep in the mess you started (Ayy)
'Cause I need you, darlin'
Is that wrong? (Na-na)
All my morals shot, even that don't faze me
Lovin' you batshit crazy
Kinda reckless lately
But that's fine
[Chorus]
Guess I'll li-li-li-li-live with a guilty conscience
Li-li— (Uh-uh) li-li— (Uh), live with a guilty conscience
Guess I'll li-li-li— (Guess I'll, guess I'll live), li-live with a guilty conscience (With a guilty conscience)
Li-li-li-li-live with a guilty conscience (Uh-uh)
Guess I'll li-li-li-li-live with a guilty conscience (You'll always be the one who gives)
Li-li-li-li-live with a guilty conscience (Me a guilty conscience)
Guess I'll li-li-li-li-live with a guilty conscience (You'll always be the one who gives)
Li-li-li-li-live with a guilty conscience (Me a guilty conscience)
Uh-uh
With a guilty conscience
Mhm
About
“guilty conscience” is track 12 off of McRae’s highly anticipated sophomore album “THINK LATER” and the lyrics tell a story of Tate and her partner in crime doing criminal activity and other similar things to do with crime as it talks about “red and blue” and “cops stop callin'” and “hijacked”.
Overall, the message behind the song revolves around Tate being reckless around a boy and them messing around while she mindlessly follows him and dedicates herself towards him, going by his side and wanting him by her side, in order for him to love her.
Q&A
Find answers to frequently asked questions about the song and explore its deeper meaning
It talks about my dedication to this person and wanting to be by their side regardless of what anyone said around me, regardless of what anyone thought about what I was doing. I was so stubborn that I would hold on to them forever. I was reluctant to let go.
– via Apple Music
Going into ‘guilty conscience’, it kind of talks about the idea of, like, if loving you is the worst thing in the world, then I guess I’ll, like, have to live with the guilty consience, because that’s all I ever want to do and that’s all I will do. I feel like I did not even listen to a single person around me when I was in this relationship, because I was so consumed and obsessed with this person. And it was such a strange feeling.
–Tate McRae, Amazon Music Artist Stories
- 1.cut my hair
- 2.greedy
- 5.grave
- 6.stay done
- 7.exes
- 9.calgary
- 10.messier
- 11.think later
- 12.guilty conscience
- 13.want that too
