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Rose Gray

Hackney Wick

Release date: 17th January 2025

From Louder, Please
Track 9
3:50
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About This Track

'Hackney Wick' by Rose Gray is a 2025 pop track from the album 'Louder, Please'. The lyrics sketch a spontaneous rush through an evening routine, with plans being shrugged off, music turned up, and time slipping by as someone heads out, takes pictures, and ends up bumping into an old acquaintance. The mood is restless and flirtatious in its details, captured in the line “I kinda wanna wait ’til it drops”.

"Hackney Wick" is a track by Rose Gray, from the album Louder, Please, released 17th January 2025. The track is 3:50 long. It's filed under Pop. Full lyrics are available below. Dork has published 15 articles about Rose Gray.

About the Artist

Rose Gray

Rose Gray

Lyrics

Hackney Wick

I kinda wanna wait 'til it drops
You know those nights that aren't planned
Like you rush home from work, shower, eat, make up
Jam to your tunes, have a drink
Get a little waved, I'm running late but I still have time
Take some pictures, walk fast, music's blasting
Bump into an old school friend
Tap my card, elevator, train
Four stops to Hackney Wick
We meet outside, colours
We have a drink on the canal
The sun's just set, it's 10 P.M
Pink's turned to dark blue, to grey and glow
The moon is reflecting all pretty on the water
We're looking so fit
We call it dressing down
This is wearing as little clothes as possible
I wrap my coat round your shoulders
There's this mad energy in East tonight
Why does the city get me so well?
That's when we head to the warehouse
I hear the bass, the music and I succumb
We drink and we dance and then we just have like fucking good time
And then this is off a party, back to her friends just down the canal
She lives off my old street in Bow, three minutes from Vicki Park
We break into the park and we just run
And I'm laughing so hard that I fall to the floor
You lay next to me and I start to trip
The stars, they're molding into spaceships
Like aliens snogging in the clouds
It's sexy
You're so hot we start to kiss
Your lips feel so good
And I remember we've got another party so we're back
Baby's DJ-ing
And the room pulses
Pulses so hard
Take me right back to Hackney Wick
Take my heart to my youth right here
Take me right back to Hackney Wick
All the love, all the energy
Take me right back to Hackney Wick
Take my heart to my youth right here
Take me right back to Hackney Wick
All the love, all the energy
Hackney Wick, Hackney Wick, Hackney Wick, Hackney Wick
Hackney Wick, Hackney Wick, Hackney Wick, Hackney Wick
Hackney Wick, Hackney Wick, Hackney Wick, Hackney Wick
Hackney Wick, Hackney Wick, Hackney Wick, Hackney Wick

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Track details

From Louder, Please

3:502025
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Album
Louder, Please
Louder, Please
Rose Gray
17th January 2025
Track number
9
Release year
2025
  1. 1Damn
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  2. 2Free
    3:12
  3. 3Wet & Wild
    3:02
  4. 4Just Two
    3:23

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  • Credits

    Production & Engineering

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