Loose Ends - Loyle Carner, Jorja Smith

In love, when the going is tough

I wait 'til it falls on deaf ears

Hearsay, without the boundaries of love

My take is, I wish there was a better way

Uh, I got a lot of love, a lot of loose ends (Way)

A lot of people that I wish I knew then (Way)

Friends beckon every second you spend (Way)

I’m wettin' the pen, every letter you send

Uh, I got a lot of love, a lot of loose ends (Way)

A lot of people that I wish I knew then (Way)

Friends beckon every second you spend (Way)

I’m wettin' the pen, every letter you send

Yo, I been listening to Dreamy Days, I’m in disarray

I realise it’s everybody else who’s still astray

I feel ashamed, I know there ain’t no savin' away

They went astray, I went Australia

So what I’m supposed to say to 'em?

Uh, when all this love’s out of range

Everything around me changed, I’m supposed to stay the same

Turn down these free drinks I couldn’t even name

And I like all this money, 'cause I’m fuckin' up my brain

I been goin' insane, shelf full of family remains

Brokenhearted is seein' none of them again

I, I pour the glass, stick my head out in the rain

Try and find another person I can blame

Sat upon this plane, uh

And yo, I’m prayin' that we don’t crash

'Cause every night, I shiver at the sight when we go back

'Cause every night could be my last, and yeah, I know that

So I crack a smile 'fore it goes black, trust

In love, when the going is tough

I wait 'til it falls on deaf ears

Hearsay, without the boundaries of love

My take is, I wish there was a better way

Uh, I got a lot of love, a lot of loose ends (Way)

A lot of people that I wish I knew then (Way)

Friends beckon every second you spend (Way)

I’m wettin' the pen, every letter you send

Uh, I got a lot of love, a lot of loose ends (Way)

A lot of people that I wish I knew then (Way)

Friends beckon every second you spend (Way)

I’m wettin' the pen, every letter you send

Trust, uh, I wish you’d been there when my dad had died

Uh, I wish you’d been there when my mother cried

I, I wish you’d been there in the drag of night

To see my side, look me in my eyes when I was paralysed

And tell me everything’s alright and push it to the side

It’s just a sacrifice, at times, I told a bag of lies

But not a pack of lies, we always told a couple ones

Of course it was true, you only knew me from the dramatise

I feel an agonising risk, 'cause in a thousand islands

This is where I really wanna be when we were cracking wise

'Cause it was black and white, literally black and white

White from my mother and my father was the blackest skies

Skies, I, I can see it’s true

I, I see my mother up in you

Shit, I think my dad’d see it too

Yo, I just wish he knew, uh

In love, when the going is tough

I wait 'til it falls on deaf ears

Hearsay, without the boundaries of love

My take is, I wish there was a better way

Uh, I got a lot of love, a lot of loose ends (Way)

A lot of people that I wish I knew then (Way)

Friends beckon every second you spend (Way)

I’m wettin' the pen, every letter you send

Uh, I got a lot of love, a lot of loose ends (Way)

A lot of people that I wish I knew then (Way)

Friends beckon every second you spend (Way)

I’m wettin' the pen, every letter you send

Uh, imagine all the friends you see most

Each one you peggin' away

Is dependin' on you puttin' pen to the page, uh

And so, you break it down, checking they’re paid

Another day you’re heartbreakin', you resented the stage

You feel that same rage

Watch the crowd, watch the stage thinkin', «Shit»

Rather in the crowd with your mates drinkin'

Misbehaviours, catch another dame winkin'

You feel ashamed, guzzle Jagers, your brain’s sinkin'

You think it’s deep, don’t think it’s depression

A misspent adolescence

But all this time, all this time, time’s of the essence

You would never learn from your lessons

You’re stuck in that same quintessence

Heartbreak, one in the same

Days change, but you’re stuck in the game

It’s like, she’s tellin' you you’re young enough to be at uni

Somehow, the one who sees through me