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Ella Mai

Close

Release date: 12th October 2018

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About This Track

Ella Mai surrenders to intimacy on 'Close', a track built around the vertigo of being completely known by another person. She moves through disorientation, then recognition, then acceptance: the body she doesn't recognise becomes the one that glows under someone else's attention. The song trades in the language of overwhelm, tears and breathlessness, but frames them not as crisis but as the price of genuine connection. The production holds space for her voice to move between restraint and release. Mai sings the chorus with a kind of wonder, as if she's still processing what she's admitting. The refrain "I just can't breathe without my baby" lands not as desperation but as clarity, the moment when you stop pretending indifference and let yourself be seen. Throughout, the song circles back to the physical: dancing close, being kissed, staying in the moment. It's a love song that trusts feeling over explanation.

"Close" is a track by Ella Mai, from the album Ella Mai, released 12th October 2018. Full lyrics are available below.

About the Artist

Ella Mai

Ella Mai

Lyrics

Close

[Verse 1]

I don't know who's living in my body

'Cause I don't recognize a thing about it

That don't even matter, I'm just glad I got into the party

So I can feel your music in my body

'Cause you the only out of everybody

Who can deal with all my ways

I know I got some ways

But you control the flame

So I just wanna stay right here with you

[Pre-Chorus]

It could be a room full of people, you still my sight

Look at how the whole world is searchin', but I got mine

It's emotional, uncontrollable, all I think about is you

So if the tears wanna flood my gates

[Chorus]

Let the water flow

Just let it fall out from my face

'Cause I never thought I'd ever hear me say

I just can't breathe without my baby

Ooh, you my baby

So come and kiss up on me

As we dance close

Come and kiss up on me slow

As we dance close

[Verse 2]

I don't even really care who knows it

Just keep me there, keep me in the moment

Seen a lot of things, but I never seen my spirit glowin'

The way you do me got me outta body

'Cause you the only out of everybody

Who gon' go out of the way to show me all the ways

Come control the flame

I just wanna stay right here with you

[Pre-Chorus]

It could be a room full of people, you still my sight

Look at how the whole world is searchin', but I got mine

It's emotional, uncontrollable, all I think about is you

So if the tears wanna flood my gates

[Chorus]

Let the water flow

Just let it fall out, out from my face

I never thought I'd ever hear me say

I just can't breathe without my baby

Ooh, come here, baby

So you can kiss up on me

As we dance close

Come and kiss up on me slow

As we dance close

So you can kiss up on me

As we dance close

Come and kiss up on me slow

As we dance

Just let it fall out, out from my face

I never thought I'd ever hear me say

I just can't breathe without my baby

Ooh, come here, baby

So you can kiss up on me

As we dance close

Come and kiss up on me slow

As we dance close

As we dance close

Come and kiss up on me slow

As we dance close

[Outro]

I: Inner. I bring to you through words I sing. My flaws, my dreams, and all from within. I am Ella Mai

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Track details

From Ella Mai

2018
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Album
Ella Mai
Ella Mai
Ella Mai
Release year
2018
  1. —Boo'd Up
  2. —Naked
  3. —Easy
  4. —Shot Clock
  5. —Own It
  6. —Cheap Shot
  7. —Run My Mouth
  8. —Dangerous
  9. —Everything
  10. —Close
  11. —Sauce
  12. —Emotion
  13. —Good Bad
  14. —Whatchamacallit (feat. Chris Brown)
    2:59
  15. —Whatchamacallit
  16. —Naked - Bonus Track
    3:17
  17. —Shot Clock
    3:22
  18. —Boo'd Up
    3:59
  19. —Gut Feeling
  20. —Everything (feat. John Legend)
    3:02

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Credits

Production & Engineering

Writer
Ella Mai, Mustard, Q Gulledge, Varren Wade
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Additional Production
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Mastering Engineer
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Mixing Engineer
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