
Beyoncé is celebrating 'B'Day' with her first new song in two years, ‘Morning Dew (Donk)’
New track launches 60-day countdown to 'B'Day' 20th anniversary edition.
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A song about the exhaustion of circular argument, 'Start Over' finds Beyoncé caught between the pull of lingering affection and the clarity that a relationship has stalled. The lyrics move between admission of weakness and the harder recognition that happiness has drained away, the couple climbing toward nothing, both too blind to see what's lost. The refrain offers its proposal simply: stop fighting the same battle, give the love another chance, or let it go with intention rather than slow attrition. The song's emotional weight rests on that tension between wanting to preserve something and knowing when preservation becomes denial. Beyoncé doesn't resolve it; instead she names the cost of both choices, the hurt that comes either way. What emerges is less a plea for reconciliation than an argument for honesty, the recognition that sometimes the most loving act is to stop pretending and start again, or to end it cleanly.
"Start Over" is a track by Beyoncé, from the album 4 (Expanded Edition), released 23rd June 2011. The track is 3:19 long. Full lyrics are available below. Dork has published 15 articles about Beyoncé.
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