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Bluff by Kelela

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Kelela

Bluff

Release date: 5th October 2017

From Take Me Apart
Track 13
1:12
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About This Track

'Bluff' by Kelela is an R&B/Soul track from the album 'Take Me Apart' (2017). The lyrics are a confrontational, self-possessed appeal to someone who looks ready to walk away, with the speaker insisting “I’m calling your bluff” as they push back against evasion and reassure themselves with the idea of love as leverage. The posture is insistently defensive and combative, yet it keeps returning to persistence, as if the argument is meant to be settled by proof rather than retreat.

"Bluff" is a track by Kelela, from the album Take Me Apart, released 5th October 2017. The track is 1:12 long. It's filed under R&B/Soul. Full lyrics are available below. Dork has published 7 articles about Kelela.

About the Artist

Kelela

Kelela

Lyrics

Bluff

I'm calling your bluff
There's no way that you really leavin'
One word, and you're on the defense
I'm calling because
You already taken a beating
And all that you need is
Just a bit of this love
There you go
Holding on to something
I'm gonna prove you wrong
I'm gonna prove you wrong
Here we go
Jumping in the deep end
I'm gonna prove you wrong
I'm gonna prove you wrong
I'm calling your bluff
I'm calling your bluff

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Track details

From Take Me Apart

1:122017
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Album
Take Me Apart
Take Me Apart
Kelela
6th October 2017
Track number
13
Release year
2017
  1. 1Frontline
    5:39
  2. 2Waitin
    3:15
  3. 3Take Me Apart
    4:03
  4. 4Enough
    5:09

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