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This song “Foreword” serves as an intro to Tyler’s 4th studio album, Flower Boy. A foreword is typically used to set the stage for something before it’s presented, which this song certainly does by exploring Tyler’s motivation and, towards the end of the song, lack of it. He comes to explore suicida...
[Intro]
Bitch, fuck! (Uh, uh, fuck)
You have a question?
[Verse 1: Tyler, The Creator]
How many cars can I buy 'til I run outta drive?
How much drive can I have until I run outta road?
How much road can they pave until I run outta land?
How much land can it be until I run in the ocean?
Niggas go with the motions and all the plans
See, I was never into the beaches and all the sands
See, I was in the woods with flowers, rainbows, and posies
Fallin' outta my pocket, but y'all want to know if I swam to cool down
How much cooler can I get until I run out of fans?
How many fans can I have until they turn on the AC?
If the AC blow up, well then I'm TNT, I'm gone
[Bridge: Rex Orange County]
I'm gone and I'm finished
And I ain't seen my friends in a minute
Guessing nothing lasts forever
Yeah, nothing lasts forever
Nothing sticks together
Sick of sitting in doubt
Please let me figure this out, out
[Verse 2: Tyler, The Creator]
Shout out to the girls that I led on
For occasional head and always keepin' my bed warm
And tryin' their hardest to keep my head on straight
And keepin' me up enough 'til I had thought I was airborne
How many raps can I write 'til I get me a chain?
How many chains can I wear 'til I'm considered a slave?
How many slaves can it be 'til Nat Turner arise?
How many riots can it be until them Black lives matter?
Niggas click-clack splatter, (Pew) pew that nigga
Life a game of basketball, you better shoot that nigga
'Cause if that cop got trigger, he better pull (Yeah)
'Cause when I get pulled over, I usually play it cool (Skrt)
'Cause I know what I'm drivin' is usually paid in full
And my ego and possessions, will not let me be one (Nah)
Because I got a mansion, my mansion got some rooms
Them rooms got some windows and my windows got some views (Yup)
Them views get some stares and my backyard does too
And if you walk to the bottom you'll prolly see a pool
You better not drown, keep them ten toes up
'Cause if them ten toes down, that mean that you fucked up
And that's what I swim in
[Outro: Rex Orange County]
And if I drown and don't come back
Who's gonna know? (Maybe then I'll know)
And if I crash and don't come back
Who's gonna know? (Maybe then I'll know)
And if I fall and don't come back
Who's gonna know? (Maybe then I'll know)
I'm wondering if I don't come back
Maybe then I'll know
Don't come back
Don't come back
Ayy, don't come back
Don't come back
No, no
Foreword was written by Damo Suzuki & Holger Czukay & Irmin Schmidt & Jaki Liebezeit & Michael Karoli & Rex Orange County & Tyler, The Creator.
Foreword was produced by Tyler, The Creator.
Tyler, The Creator released Foreword on Fri Jul 21 2017.
Rex Orange County is a British singer/songwriter, previously cosigned by Tyler. His music mainly falls under “indie/alternative” but some of his tracks such as “UNO” are more rap orientated. However he said he doesn’t identify as a rapper.
Tyler sampled “Spoon (Sonic Youth Remix)”, a remix by American noise/alt-rock band Sonic Youth of the song “Spoon” by German krautrock band Can.
The original song was released by Can in 1972, on their third album Ege Bamyasi. The Sonic Youth remix was released in 1997 on a remix album titled Sacril...
Rex Orange County told Pigeons & Planes:
“Foreword,” which opens the album, was my first experience of writing on the spot, in the studio. I gave it a go and we spent a couple of hours on it—by the end it was the one. The pressure of wanting to have my voice on the album made me write better th...