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    Daniel Caesar

    innocence*

    Release date: 2021

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    About This Track

    '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.

    About the Artist

    Daniel Caesar

    Daniel Caesar

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    innocence*

    [Verse 1]

You're broke as a joke

Plus your credit is low, you couldn't pay your telephone

You're drunk as a skunk

You're foolish at the party, then you threw up all your lunch

Remember back in '95 when they were happy you're alive

Now you gotta make sure their expenses are all paid on time

Shift my paradigm

[Chorus]

Ooh, I'm drifting from my innocence

I wanna be a kid again

Ooh, I wonder about it some times

Leave the bullshit all behind

[Verse 2]

High all the time

Doin' lines in the bathroom, this place is a vacuum

I can't breathe

If I could rewind, I'd live in isolation

Then LA be vacation

But that's just me

Remember back in '95 when they were happy you're alive

Now you gotta make sure their expenses are all paid on time

Shift my paradigm

[Chorus]

Ooh, I'm drifting from my innocence

I wanna be a kid again

Ooh, I cry about it all the time

It took away my paradigm

Ooh, I'm drifting from my innocence

I wanna be a kid again

Ooh, I cry about it all the time

It took away my paradigm

[Verse 3]

I wrote this when I was broke as a joke

Now I float, now I rise like a rose

Jalen Rose, Derrick Rose

Gucci flowers in my robe

I get showered, they throw roses at my feet

Those are flowers I don't keep

No flour, nothin' sweet

Might go vegan, gluten free

Really free, independent

It's just me and my G's

Jordan rose, Burny rose, Maui rose

Vonnie rose, Riley rose, Jose rose

Sean be rising on these ho's

We'll be rising 'til the day that I'm dying

This I know, this I know, this I know

[Verse 4: Sean Leon]

Yeah, let's take it back

I remember we were Kobe and Shaq

Heartbroken but still intact, in pieces but still at peace

Got pieces to keep the peace

I could tell you who I really is

Matthew fucking Sean

I've been rappin' since we parked cycles on mama's lawn

Calm as ever and I see comma's when I read poems

Got my palms itchin', and that pinkie glistnin' in the charm

Got them all smitten, I smoke tall trees to resolve tension

These both white tees but might cost different

This a white tee but it cost different

Life is Gucci, the Gucci watch too

I never watch niggas [?] watch [?]

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    Track details

    From Pseudomutuality

    2021
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    Pseudomutuality
    Pseudomutuality
    Daniel Caesar
    Release year
    2021
    1. —Fly You Out
    2. —Let Me Know
    3. —YoBro (Interlude)
    4. —Mr. Nice Guy
    5. —One Day
    6. —Ocho Rios (Pseudomutuality Version)
    7. —innocence*

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