TRACK

Clouds Never Get Old

Release date: 25th February 2016

From Too High to Riot

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About This Track

Bas trades in the pleasures of excess and the complications that come with them. 'Clouds Never Get Old' sits at the centre of his world: money, women, the road, the borough. The hook circles back to emotional distance, a young man with resources but no real connection, his best line a statement of wealth rather than anything resembling intimacy. It's a posture of detachment dressed up as confidence. The verses move through scenes of conquest and indulgence with a kind of weary momentum. There's a girl in Harlem, bottles being passed around, the constant tension between what he wants and what he's willing to give. Bas keeps the focus tight and unglamorous; these aren't fantasies but transactions, and he's honest enough to let the loneliness show through. The production from DikC and Ogee holds steady beneath it all, letting the words do the work.

"Clouds Never Get Old" is a track by Bas, from the album Too High to Riot, released 25th February 2016. Full lyrics are available below.

About the Artist

Bas

Bas

Lyrics

Clouds Never Get Old

[Intro]

Said I'm calling all my niggas with me riding

Dressing room like we keep bitches on the rider

Bus full of white girls singing Akinyele

Momma I think I just met me a Madonna (oh na, na)

Everything glowing ain't a diamond

I know everything glowing ain't a diamond

Girl you shining

[Hook]

But I ain't felt love in a long time, and I  told you that when we woke up

I guess that might have been the wrong time

My best pick up line is young nigga with  money, I ain't playing

My best pick up line is young nigga with money

[Verse 1]

Killing these niggas, I got a feeling these niggas is out to get me but trust me I got 'em

Straight out the borough my city love me we thorough

My nigga you don't want none of them problems

She acting crazy she calling me baby I just be feeding them bitches the bottles

She live in way up in Harlem but she come to me when I call her

And she all about her fashion she be working for Vogue

Me I'm all about my stacking I be working the road

[Bridge]

But them clouds never get old

Them clouds never get old

[Verse 2]

So focused on, make the dopest song

Got this chick open armed, got her lit on patron

Got her ticked off, cause I got no tick for her

I got no time, but I got some dick for her now

She was lit, I was milk

Girl don't let that milk spoil

You got some friends that stress you

He ain't loyal, I got some friends, don't let 'em think for you now

Pull up the whip for you now, here go the town

I am no pimp, but I am a player

You not with the shits? I'll talk to you later

I'm playing girl I got a thing for you now

[Hook]

But I ain't felt love in a long time, and I told you that when we woke up

I guess that might have been the wrong time

My best pick up line is young nigga with  money, I ain't playing

My best pick up line is young nigga with money

[Bridge]

718 to your state, 212 to your city

My best pick up line is young nigga with  money, I ain't playing

718 to your state, 212 to your city

[Verse 3]

Throwing fishing nets in the ocean to cash

Good catch, here's to hoping it last, nigga

And bring them hoes back to the pad from the show

But only if they know how to act, nigga

Don't ever get stuck on your laurels like

All of them stuck in the past niggas

Shit, it's how I got past niggas

For real

[Outro]

Said I'm calling all my niggas with me riding

Dressing room like we keep bitches on the rider

Bus full of white girls singing Akinyele

Momma I think I just met me a Madonna

Track details

From Too High to Riot

2016

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