Let Me Calm Down

Album: Pink Friday 2 (2023)
Charted: 63
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  • Calm, calm down
    Let me call you
    When I calm, calm down
    Let me call you
    Calm, calm down (let me, let me, let me calm down)

    Pull off and I almost hit him
    He actin' like I ain't always with him
    My heart sayin' I love him while I'm screamin' that I hate him
    And ain't no more debatin', this time, it's a ultimatum
    I never forgot where I was at the first day I met him
    Yeah, it was love at first sight, but I ain't never sweat him
    I knew if it was meant to be that one day I would let him
    Twenty years later, them decisions, I don't regret them
    Just wish you would give me space when I really need it
    To be alone in my zone when I'm really heated
    Just 'cause I am quiet, don't mean you're defeated
    Wish you ain't need me to feel like you're completed
    Don't wanna say somethin' mean when I don't mean it
    Million missed calls, I don't wanna talk
    Just did a detox, now I wanna spar

    I wrote a line for you and it was beautiful
    I made a sign for you to say you're beautiful
    You're so, so irresistible
    Take me to somewhere mystical
    You're so
    Do you know?
    For you, I promise I'll try
    For you, I promise I'll try
    For you, I promise I'll try

    Uh, havin' her ain't for the faint of heart
    She bad as fuck but hard to deal with, and it ain't her fault
    She got ambition like the niggas, and the vision for herself
    So she can't rest until she feel like she done made her mark
    So if you love her, then you gotta learn to play your part
    Sometimes you gotta play the back
    But when you do, make sure you play it smart
    All these niggas want her, so they hatin' hard
    They talkin' slick and make you wanna pull a rated-R
    You like her, love her like a brother, like her manager, an A&R
    Plus a therapist when it start rainin' hard
    Her life was trauma-filled, it left her with a tainted heart
    Yet you the nigga that she wanna tat her name across
    But you need patience and a lot of extra faith in God
    To keep the family together at a time when it's so regular to break apart
    So God forbid, y'all got a kid, therefore, I hate the thought
    It's you and her against the world until it ain't no more breath in your lungs
    I'm just a messenger, but God is who this message is from
    I wanna send you my respect because I rep for the ones
    That hold they wifey down despite all of the extras that come
    Word to Willy Smith, these silly niggas heckle and shun
    As if they life is somehow perfect and they never been plunged
    Into a dark place, so I can't respect when it's done
    It's family first through the worst, comin' second to none, for real

    I wrote a line for you and it was beautiful
    I made a sign for you to say you're beautiful
    You're so, so irresistible
    Take me to somewhere mystical
    You're so
    Do you know?
    For you, I promise I'll try

    For you, I promise I
    For you, I promise I
    For you, I promise I
    For you, I promise I
    For you, I promise I (for you I promise)
    For you, I promise I
    For you, I promise I (for you, I)
    For you, I, for you, for, for Writer/s: Derrick Miller, Jacob Canady, Jermaine Cole, Ofer Shaul Ishai, Onika Maraj
    Publisher: The Administration MP, Inc., Universal Music Publishing Group
    Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

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