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Something Real by Post Malone

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Post Malone

Something Real

Release date: 27th July 2023

From AUSTIN
Track 2
3:25
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About This Track

Post Malone searches for something real amid the excess of fame and wealth. The song cycles through a litany of luxury goods and experiences, supercars, designer labels, Mediterranean holidays, each one offered up as a potential answer to an unnamed hunger. Yet each verse circles back to the same refrain: none of it fills the void. The production sits somewhere between introspection and resignation, Malone's voice steady even as the lyrics catalogue a kind of spiritual emptiness that money cannot solve. The song's architecture is built on contradiction. He admits to being hard to please despite having everything, to wanting peace whilst chasing the next acquisition. There's a moment of dark clarity in the bridge where he acknowledges the futility: at the gates of hell, he sings, there is no VIP, everybody waits in line. It's a rare admission that status and wealth offer no escape from the fundamental human condition. The track sits somewhere between confession and complaint, never quite deciding which, and that ambivalence is where its power lies.

"Something Real" is a track by Post Malone, from the album AUSTIN, released 27th July 2023. The track is 3:25 long. It's filed under Pop. Full lyrics are available below. Dork has published 3 articles about Post Malone.

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Lyrics

Something Real

Give me somethin' I can feel
Light a cigarette just so I can breathe
Give me somethin', somethin' real (yeah)
Seven hundred feet off the coast of Greece
Give me somethin' I can feel (yeah)
No reservation, pull up twenty deep
Give me somethin', somethin' real (yeah)
I would trade it all just to be at peace
Stop, the gear's too high, this is overload
And no matter what car is sittin' outside, it's a lonely road
It's a double-edge sword, cuttin' off ties with the ones I know
So tell me, how the fuck am I still alive? It's a miracle, oh
(No-o-o) and I can't believe, ran through a B at Louis V
It's what I need right now
(No-o-o) it's just money at the gates of hell, no VIP
Everybody waits in line
So give me somethin' I can feel
720S, 750V
Give me somethin', somethin' real (yeah)
I was in Maldives sippin' burgundy
Give me somethin' I can feel (yeah)
Prada on my dick, Prada on my sleeve
Give me somethin', somethin' real (yeah)
I could play that pussy like it's "Für Elise"
I got real habits, I'm a snowmobile addict
Teal Patek, steel when I feel panic, ah-ah, ahh
Throw a mil' at it, problem, throw a pill at it
Still at it, sign-another-deal addict (ah-ah, ah)
And I can't believe everybody gets to drink for free
So give me one more round (oh-oh-oh)
No cover fee at the gates of hell, no VIP
Everybody waits in line
So give me somethin' I can feel
Light a cigarette just so I can breathe
Give me somethin', somethin' real (yeah)
How much psilocybin can a human eat?
Give me somethin' I can feel (yeah)
Whiskey lullaby just to fall asleep
Give me somethin', somethin' real (yeah)
And it's what I want, it ain't what I need
Give me somethin' I can feel (yeah, ooh)
Got everything, guess I'm hard to please
Give me somethin', somethin' real (yeah, ooh)
I would trade my life just to be at peace
Give me somethin' I can feel (ah, ooh)
Give me somethin', somethin' real

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Track details

From AUSTIN

3:252023
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Album
AUSTIN
AUSTIN
Post Malone
28th July 2023
Track number
2
Release year
2023
  1. 1Don't Understand
    3:03
  2. 2Something Real
    3:25
  3. 3Chemical
    3:03
  4. 4Novacandy
    3:17

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    • Credits

    Production & Engineering

    Writer
    Billy Walsh, Louis Bell, Post Malone, watt
    Producer
    Louis Bell, Post Malone, watt
    Drums
    watt
    Guitar
    Post Malone, watt
    Keyboards
    Louis Bell
    Vocals
    Post Malone
    Assistant Recording Engineer
    Braden Bursteen, Jed Jones, Joe Dougherty, Tommy Turner
    Mastering Engineer
    Mike Bozzi
    Mixing Engineer
    Mark “Spike” Stent
    Piano
    Louis Bell
    Programmer
    Louis Bell
    Recording Engineer
    Marco Sonzini, Paul LaMalfa
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