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SZA – Aftermath (2013) | Track profile | Dork

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Aftermath

Release date: 28th October 2013

About This Track

SZA constructs a portrait of dissociation and surrender across 'Aftermath'. The track opens with a confession of delayed honesty before pivoting into abstraction: she is not human, made instead of fairy tales and pixie dust, untethered from feeling. The lyrics oscillate between declarations of unreality and moments of strange comfort, finding solace in the idea of burning, in being left careless, in the surrender of agency itself. The production holds space for this emotional vertigo. Repetition becomes its own kind of hypnosis, the chorus insisting "Maybe we should burn" with the weight of inevitability rather than suggestion. SZA's voice moves through the verses with a conversational intimacy that contrasts sharply with the surreal imagery, grounding the abstract in something almost confessional. By the bridge she leans fully into the paradox: willing surrender, the desire to be taken rather than to choose, acceptance of accidents happening slowly.

"Aftermath" is a track by SZA, from the album S, released 28th October 2013. Full lyrics are available below. Dork has published 20 articles about SZA.

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Lyrics

Aftermath

[Intro]

WNDRBRD

Ooh

[Verse 1]

I apologize for waiting to tell you for so long

I am not human

I am made of bacon, fairy tales, pixie dust, I don't feel

I hung myself and didn't die

I'm omnipotent, I'm alive

Not real, I'm alive

You leave me careless, I like it

I like it

[Pre-Chorus]

Caught up in the blast

Caught up in the action

Caught up in the burstin' flame

There's comfort in dyin'

There's comfort in burnin'

[Chorus]

Maybe we should burn

Maybe we should burn

Maybe we should burn

Maybe we should burn, burn

[Verse 2]

Doubt I'll ever be anyone's baby (Baby)

Living as a unicorn gets so lonely (Lonely)

I have no answers, I have no questions

Stuck in your tandem

Heat that's worth standing

I like it

[Pre-Chorus]

Caught up in the blast

Caught up in the action

Caught up in the burstin' flame

There's comfort in dyin'

There's comfort in burnin'

[Chorus]

Maybe we should burn

Maybe we should burn

Maybe we should burn

Maybe we should burn, burn

[Bridge]

I can feel the accidents happenin' slowly

Fallin' for the rapture ever so boldly

I will go willingly, you don't have to kidnap

I'd like to be kidnapped

You leave me careless, I like it

I like it

[Chorus]

Maybe we should burn

Maybe we should burn

Maybe we should burn

Maybe we should burn, burn

[Outro]

Doubt I'll ever be anyone's baby

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10th April 2013

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2013

—Aftermath
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