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Bladee

Doorman

Release date: 21st September 2018

From Plastic Surgery
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About This Track

Bladee moves through 'Doorman' with the detachment of someone who has learned to treat fame and its attendant paranoia as background noise. The track settles into a languid groove, its production creating space for his voice to drift across observations about money, suspicion, and the cost of being known. He cycles through a series of small declarations: background checks, gatekeeping, the transformation of old demons into homies, the weariness of being talked about. The song turns on a particular kind of exhaustion. Bladee sketches a figure caught between wanting to live and the machinery that won't let him do it quietly, someone who has learned to weaponise boredom against his own life. The chorus loops its refrain about being still around, about things moving sideways and going south, about forgetting people and haunted houses. It's a portrait of endurance without much hope attached to it, delivered with the flatness of someone who has made peace with that fact.

"Doorman" is a track by Bladee, from the album Plastic Surgery, released 21st September 2018. Full lyrics are available below.

About the Artist

Bladee

Bladee

Lyrics

Doorman

[Intro]

JakeBlaze

PJbeats

[Chorus]

Been around, still around the finish line

Background check them 'fore they come around

Drain Gang tree house and you're not allowed

Dead tree branches and they hanging down

I smell the money, gotta hunt it down

Still talking 'bout me, you gotta cut it out

They're moving sideways but it's going south

You remind me of someone that I forgot about

It's getting crazy in the haunted house

I might pop out and sleep on the couch

Used to have demons but we're homies now

Used to be on some shit but it's over now

[Verse]

I'm on the phone and it's over out

You've been tryna run into me on my coldest night

I can't go if it's not feeling right

And I'm in the dark tunnel but I see a light

It's a hard day, I might get an upgrade

I get the stop made even when I'm up late

Been a long way, it really came a long way

Might get a heartbreak swimming in the dark lake

They call me Boss BladeeCity where the sword lays

I've seen a late night turn into a morning

I know you hate me but it's not important

I know 'bout death 'cause it's waiting at my doorstep

This is not fake so you can't afford it

I can't have fans 'round 'cause they wanna record me

I'm in your city, that's another story

I fuck my real life up 'cause that shit bore me

I'm in some Air Force, can't do Michael Jordan's

I know you hate me, I'm working when you're snoring

And I've been global so there's nothing foreign

They know my name, I am buddies with the doorman

[Chorus]

Been around, still around the finish line

Background check them 'fore they come around

Drain Gang tree house and you're not allowed

Dead tree branches and they hanging down

I smell the money, gotta hunt it down

Still talking 'bout me, you gotta cut it out

They're moving sideways but it's going south

You remind me of someone that I forgot about

It's getting crazy in the haunted house

I might pop out and sleep on the couch

Used to have demons but we're homies now

Used to be on some shit but it's over now

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From Plastic Surgery

2018
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