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Watsky

Difference is the Differences

Release date: 10th June 2012

From Nothing Like the First Time
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About This Track

Watsky builds 'Difference is the Differences' around a central paradox: the hook insists that what sets him apart is not what he has but what he lacks, the gaps and contradictions that make him unpredictable. The intro sets a casual scene of rap fandom, then the verse unfolds as a portrait of productive contradiction, a kid suspended from school the same month he won the science fair, an honour roll student who cut class, a vegetarian who despises animal-rights activism. The song moves through these oppositions with a kind of gleeful precision. Watsky pairs unlikely images (a babyface with a cutlass, a bookish delivery with nasty content) and stacks contradictory claims so densely that the verse becomes less about resolution than about the pleasure of refusal itself. He won't be pinned down to a single register or ideology. The rhyme schemes are tight and the wordplay stays sharp throughout, anchored by a hook that makes the whole thing coherent: the difference, he keeps saying, is the differences. Not a single defining trait, but the friction between them.

"Difference is the Differences" is a track by Watsky, from the album Nothing Like the First Time, released 10th June 2012. Full lyrics are available below.

About the Artist

Watsky

Watsky

Lyrics

Difference is the Differences

[Intro]

Hey man, you heard the new Eminem track? It's crazy!

Yeah, I heard it like six months ago, hecka long ago!

All the tracks on Chronic 2001, dude they're just crazy

Shut up, man! Let me get some hot cheetos tho!

[Hook]

Yeah you're hot

But the difference is the differences I've got

It's what I'm not

Yeah, the difference is the differences I've got

Yeah you're hot

But the difference is the differences I've got

It's what I'm not

Yeah, the difference is the differences I've got

[Verse]

Suspended the same month I won the city science fair

I won most likely to succeed and teachers nightmare

Guess I was quite scary, some hate a binary

Sent to the principals office straight from the libary

But since my voice was about as high as Mariah Carey

When I had the douchey spiky hair like Guy Fieri

My flavor was a mystery you never knew what you were getting it could be some mild or some Wild Cherry

Just read my diary, cause I'm wirey

But I'm irie, and I spit it firey, hire me

I wouldn't hurt a fly

Though sensitive you never heard me cry

But I got a certified dirty mind

So grab some turpentine, a dash of listerene

And splash my mouth out with a gallon jug of Mister Clean

I'm flashing on every asshole up in the classroom

I'm planning on coming sick I hope you had your antihistamines

Before I split the scene, and we can puff pass

Cause I'm an honor roll kid who liked to cut class

A babyface but I tend to shave with a cutlass

And If you switch the picture to HD you'll see my mustache

I tend to slow it down when they want just fast

I'm a vegetarian who thinks that PETA sucks ass

I bring the ruckus, while shmucks be kissing my tuchus, I bookishly bust it nasty, you should be rocking a dust mask

I like smoking dope, but won't pop a pill

I think Oprah's ill, but I loathe Dr. Phil

I got the propers to a topple your whole metropolis stomp an impossible obstacle I won't be stoppin' to chill

From Chapel Hill to the big apple I travel the map just trampling bastards but then I handle their hospital bill

If there's bees in the trap I'm catching em

By the thorax and abdomen

And sanding the stingers down to a rough quill

Then I dip em in ink, and I scribble a bit

But if it they wriggle then I tickle em until they hold still

Lemme say it again

In my land of pretend

I use bees as a motherfuckin' pen

But a lot of the guys I know

Have been saying that I'm so so

They're not a believer

That I'm a keeper

B-b-But I don't know

Maybe it's cause I be looking like Leave it to Beaver they're thinking that I don't flow

Even if I could be running in circles around em as if I'm gyroscope

I'll enter the draft and I'm thinking I might go pro

Running the jungle like I'm an albino rhino

Deep in the undergrowth

Fuck a disaster, bring on the asteroids

Never gonna be massacred like all of the dinos though

Bring on primal vinyl magic show

I'm turning a blind eye to the bull crap, waving bye bye

Zippity doo dah

Suck on my booty

Done with the bad luck

Put on my brass knucks

And I cold cock any Pol Pot in the whole spot, with that boom

I'm Fiddler on the Roof hitting Hitler in his fruits of the loom

I'm Jew, on the right side but it's true

I'm a Christian on the left

Side of my family crest, dude

I've been to public school and private, been unpopular and popular and I don't think people pop from a test tube

[Outro]

Difference is the differences

Difference is the differences

Yeah, the difference is the differences I've got

Difference is the differences

Difference is the differences I've got

Difference is the differences I've got

Difference is the differences I've got

Difference is the differences I've got

Difference is the differences I've got

Difference is the differences I've got

Difference is the differences I've got

Difference is the differences I've got

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From Nothing Like the First Time

2012
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Nothing Like the First Time
Nothing Like the First Time
Watsky
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2012
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  2. —Gummy Bear Hundrednaire
  3. —IDGAF
  4. —Wounded Healer
  5. —$$
  6. —A Hundred Words You Could Say Instead of Swag
  7. —All I Ever Wanted
  8. —Difference is the Differences
  9. —Bucketlist
  10. —Ninjas In Paris
  11. —Other Cities
  12. —Stupidass
  13. —Write Your Name
  14. —Rich Girl

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