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'innocence*' appears on Daniel Caesar's 2021 album 'Pseudomutuality', a track built around the tension between adult responsibility and the desire to retreat. Caesar opens with a litany of financial and social failures before the chorus pivots to longing: 'I wanna be a kid again'. The second verse shifts location to Los Angeles, where substance use and claustrophobia replace the earlier domestic chaos, the refrain now tinged with grief rather than mere nostalgia. The third verse flips the script entirely. Caesar recounts writing the song when he was broke, then catalogues his current success in a stream of rose imagery and designer references, the repetition of 'rose' functioning as both metaphor and mantra. A verse from Sean Leon closes the track, grounding the reflective sprawl in childhood friendship and shared history.
"innocence*" is a track by Daniel Caesar, from the album Pseudomutuality, released 2021. Full lyrics are available below.
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