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SZA

Wavy (Interlude)

Release date: 9th June 2017

From Ctrl
R&B/SoulMusic
Contemporary R&B
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About This Track

SZA examines the exhaustion of an unequal relationship over a minimal, floating production. She opens with self-awareness, acknowledging her own flaws whilst laying out the terms of reciprocity: give as much as you take, forgive as much as you hate. The logic is clean and unforgiving. What follows is the sound of someone worn down, caught between staying and leaving, caught between the metaphor of drowning and the metaphor of being lost without direction. James Fauntleroy joins for the chorus, his voice lifting the track into something almost weightless. The production stays spare, letting the emotional arithmetic breathe. SZA's delivery is conversational, even casual, which makes the resignation underneath it all the more cutting. She's not dramatising the moment; she's simply naming it.

"Wavy (Interlude)" is a track by SZA, from the album Ctrl, released 9th June 2017. It's filed under R&B/Soul. Full lyrics are available below. Dork has published 20 articles about SZA.

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SZA

SZA

Lyrics

Wavy (Interlude)

[Verse: SZA]

I think I'm bad as hell, I got issues, out of line

Sayin' tomorrow I'll do the dishes, never come

Easy bake, easy wake, oven

Just give as much as you take

Forgive as much as you hate

Or get the fuck out

[Pre-Chorus: SZA]

I've been in the dugout (Dugout)

Lookin' for a way out (Way out)

You know, just takin' it slow (Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah)

Now I'm feelin' worn out (Worn out)

Lookin' for a way out (Way out)

Somebody show me the door (Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah)

[Chorus: James Fauntleroy & SZA]

I was wavy

I've been waitin' for you, boy

And I was drownin' (Ooh)

I went crazy

I've been goin' crazy, boy

And I found out, this the way out (Ooh)

Now I'm wavy

Now I'm wavy

[Outro: SZA]

You know, just takin' it slow, babe (Yeah, yeah, yeah)

Somebody show me the door, babe (Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah)

You know, just takin' it slow, babe

Somebody show me the ropes, babe

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Track details

From Ctrl

2017
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Ctrl
Ctrl
SZA
9th June 2017
Release year
2017
  1. 1Supermodel
    3:01
  2. 3Doves In The Wind (feat. Kendrick Lamar)
    4:26
  3. 4Drew Barrymore
    3:51
  4. 5Prom
    3:16
  5. 6The Weekend
    4:32
  6. 7Go Gina
    2:42
  7. 8Garden (Say It Like Dat)
    3:28
  8. 9Broken Clocks
    3:51
  9. 10Anything
    2:29
  10. 11Wavy (Interlude) [feat. James Fauntleroy]
    1:16
  11. 12Normal Girl
    4:14
  12. 13Pretty Little Birds (feat. Isaiah Rashad)
    4:06
  13. 1420 Something
    3:18
  14. —Wavy (Interlude)
  15. —Love Galore
  16. —Doves in the Wind
  17. —Pretty Little Birds

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