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blackbear

princess complex

Release date: 4th August 2016

From cashmere noose
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About This Track

'Princess Complex' finds blackbear caught between desire and restraint. The track opens on a familiar frustration: a woman calling him at 3 AM to vent about her unfaithful partner, seeking counsel he cannot offer. He watches her tolerate the disrespect, then finds himself wanting her precisely because she remains unavailable to him. The song turns on that contradiction, the speaker's longing sharpened by the knowledge that it cannot be satisfied. The chorus names the paradox in its title. She has standards, refuses to settle, always gets what she wants. That refusal is what makes her desirable to him, even as it locks him out. blackbear sketches the dynamic without moralising it, letting the tension sit: she calls him for support; he wants her for himself; her partner takes her for granted. Nobody wins. The production sits sparse and conversational, giving the lyrics room to breathe and the speaker's mixed motives nowhere to hide.

"princess complex" is a track by blackbear, from the album cashmere noose, released 4th August 2016. Full lyrics are available below. Dork has published 1 article about blackbear.

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Lyrics

princess complex

[Intro]

Yeah

[Verse]

Why is you play that shit? I know

Your man is out there fuckin' 'round with other hoes

Why is you putting up with the bullshit?

Calling me afterwards, like I know

What to do with his crazy ass

I ain't gonna fight nobody for ya'

Why you callin' me like this at 3 AM?

Wonderin' how I'm doin'? Oh, no

[Refrain]

He off of work, he playin'

Leave you all alone, layin' at home, home

He off of work, just sayin'

You know he is out here with these hoes, hoes, hoes

[Pre-Chorus]

And I want you

Now that I know I can't have ya'

I want you, girl

Now that I know I can't have ya'

[Chorus]

But she got a princess complex

She ain't gon' play that shit

Princess complex

She ain't gon' play that shit

Princess complex

She always get what she want

She always get what she want

She always get what she want

Oh-oh, oh-oh

[Verse]

Why is you play that shit? I know

Your man is out there fuckin' 'round with other hoes

Why is you putting up with the bullshit?

Calling me afterwards, like I know

What to do with his crazy ass

I ain't gonna fight nobody for ya'

Why you callin' me like this at 3 AM?

Wonderin' how I'm doin'? Oh, no

[Refrain]

He off of work, he playin'

Leave you all alone, layin' at home, home

He off of work, just sayin'

You know he is out here with these hoes, hoes, hoes

[Pre-Chorus]

And I want you

Now that I know I can't have ya'

I want you, girl

Now that I know I can't have ya'

[Chorus]

But she got a princess complex

She ain't gon' play that shit

Princess complex

She ain't gon' play that shit

Princess complex

She always get what she want

She always get what she want

She always get what she want

Oh-oh, oh-oh

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2016
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