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Rod Wave

Alone

Release date: 8th August 2022

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About This Track

Rod Wave charts the emotional wreckage of a relationship ending, moving through self-doubt, substance use, and the weight of unresolved feeling. The track opens with vulnerability: questioning his own worth, then pivoting to defiance about his own value. What follows is a catalogue of small, devastating details, a headband left on the bedroom floor, memories of driving on Pinellas Point Drive, the gap between how she appeared and what she actually felt. The chorus strips everything back to its core: the fear of ending up alone despite all the effort, all the time, all the fighting. Wave's delivery shifts between confession and resignation, the production sparse enough that each admission lands hard. There's no redemption offered here, no neat resolution. Instead, he circles back to the same refrain, the repetition itself becoming the point: the exhaustion of loving someone who leaves anyway, the knowledge that it will happen again.

"Alone" is a track by Rod Wave, from the album Beautiful Mind, released 8th August 2022. Full lyrics are available below.

About the Artist

Rod Wave

Rod Wave

Lyrics

Alone

[Intro]

B Squared beats

Oh (Oh-woah)

Oh-woah

Tell me what, what you see

Will-A-Fool

[Verse]

Uh, you ever feel like you worthless? (Graah)

Like you ain't worth shit? (Yeah)

And I know that I ain't perfect

But you know that I'm worth it, uh (Yeah)

Tryna find somethin' to do with my time (Time)

Ease my pain, get you off of my mind

Three cell phones, I been on my grind

No more love means no more lies

And I tried, yeah

Lord knows I tried (Yeah, yeah)

Smokin' dope back to back, I'm fried (Fried)

Thuggin' for three days, see the pain in his eyes (Yeah)

Tryna get over pride (Yeah, yeah)

And I'm here to let 'em know (Let 'em know, oh, I gotta let 'em know, yeah)

Uh, if you love 'em, don't let 'em go (Let 'em go, tell me, why would you ever let 'em go?)

I found your headband on my bedroom floor

The only evidence that you've been here before

I don't get waves of missin' you anymore

They're more like tsunami tides in my eyes (Yeah, yeah)

Remember all of the times on Pinellas Point Drive

Actin' like you was fine, a broken heart in disguise

Loved the nigga to death, even though I was tellin' lies

The day that we run away, all the stars align

It's the same old thing (Yeah, yeah, yeah)

It's the same old song (Gang, yeah)

One day you're here, next day, you're gone (Gone)

All of the fussin', all of the fights

All the early mornings and the long nights

All the who's right's, and all the who's wrong (Woah, yeah, yeah)

[Chorus]

Just to end up alone (All alone, ended alone)

Just to end up alone (All alone, just to end up alone)

Just to end up alone (All that work, all that time)

I don't wanna be alone

I don't wanna be—, I don't wanna be—

Don't leave me alone

[Outro]

Ayy, let me hear that, Chino

Let me see where I'm at with that bih

Grrah, grrah

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Track details

From Beautiful Mind

2022
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Album
Beautiful Mind
Beautiful Mind
Rod Wave
Release year
2022
  1. —Druski Phone Skit
  2. —Fading
  3. —Rockstar Heart
  4. —Never Find Us
  5. —Better
  6. —Sweet Little Lies
  7. —Keep Going
  8. —Me Vs. The World
  9. —Pt. II
  10. —I Know It
  11. —Everything
  12. —Quiet Storm
  13. —Pieces
  14. —Alone
  15. —Never Get Over Me
  16. —Forever
  17. —Time Kills (Love Birds)
  18. —No Deal
  19. —Married Next Year
  20. —Yungen
  21. —Stone Rolling
  22. —Mafia

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Credits

Production & Engineering

Writer
BSQUARED, Ed Sheeran, Jake Gosling, Rod Wave, Will A Fool
Lyricist
Rod Wave
Producer
BSQUARED, Will A Fool
Vocals
Rod Wave
Mastering Engineer
Travis Harrington
Mixing Engineer
Travis Harrington
Recording Engineer
Raymond Argueta, Travis Harrington
Video Assistant Editor
Brandon Noel
Video Director
Rod Wave, Yawn Rico
Video Editor
Mark Mayr
Video Production Company
Eye 4 Productions, SixTwentySix Productions
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