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Release date: 9th June 2022

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SZA confronts the paralysis of self-doubt on 'Miles', a track built around the image of anxious pacing. The song catches her caught between wanting to move forward and the fear that keeps her rooted, her mind running in circles whilst time pushes ahead regardless. She's sick of performing maturity, sick of her own pride, sick of saying things just to be nice. The real struggle isn't external; it's the weight of her own expectations and the voice in her head that won't let her breathe. The production sits spare and intimate, letting the vulnerability breathe. SZA's delivery shifts between conversational and urgent, the repetition of "miles runnin' wild" becoming a kind of mantra for the thoughts she can't outrun. It's a song about being stuck in your own way, about how sometimes the hardest person to get past is yourself.

"Miles" is a track by SZA, from the album Ctrl (Deluxe), released 9th June 2022. It's filed under R&B/Soul. Full lyrics are available below. Dork has published 20 articles about SZA.

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Miles

[Verse]

Wish I could be a little more mature

Did my time, did myself for sure

River wide, got myself afloat

Demons die if I don't support

Demons die if I don't support

And why can't I be like everybody else? (Oh, woah)

Losin' my mind, think I look good when I'm really just high

Scared of my life, can a bitch get by? (Get by)

Sick of listening to everyone else (Oh, ooh)

Sick of my pride (Ooh), sick of just sayin' shit just to be nice (Oh)

Scared of this world, how do I get by?

[Chorus]

Miles runnin' wild in my head (Miles runnin' wild)

Pacin', going back instead of movin' forward

Time is movin' forward (Yеah, yeah, yeah)

Miles runnin' wild in my hеad (Miles runnin' wild)

I'm scared of movin' forward

Time keep movin' forward, forward

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Track details

From Ctrl (Deluxe)

2022
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Ctrl (Deluxe)
Ctrl (Deluxe)
SZA
9th June 2022
Release year
2022
  1. —Awkward
  2. —Jodie
  3. —Miles
  4. —2AM
  5. —Love Galore (Alt Version)
  6. —Percolator
  7. —Love Galore (feat. Travis Scott)
    4:35
  8. —Pretty Little Birds (feat. Isaiah Rashad)
    4:06
  9. —Jodie
    2:46
  10. —Awkward
    2:58
  11. —Percolator
    1:24
  12. —Love Galore (Alt Version)
    4:34
  13. —20 Something
    3:18
  14. —Broken Clocks
    3:51
  15. —Garden (Say It Like Dat)
    3:28
  16. —Supermodel
    3:01
  17. —2AM
    4:03
  18. —Miles
    1:10
  19. —The Weekend
    4:32
  20. —Normal Girl
    4:14
  21. —Doves In The Wind (feat. Kendrick Lamar)
    4:26
  22. —Drew Barrymore
    3:51
  23. —Go Gina
    2:42
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