Bad Things
Snoh Aalegra & Common * Track #2 On There Will Be Sunshine
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Bad Things by Snoh Aalegra (Ft. Common)
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Just a week after releasing “Fire’s All Around You,” Snoh comes back with another track – this time featuring fellow ARTium recording artist Common.
The song is about containing multitudes. In the lyrics, Snoh and Common express that it’s our nature to be made of different parts with different need...
Bad Things Lyrics
[Chorus: Snoh Aalegra]
I do bad things to good versions of me
I find good things in bad versions of me
I don't know, it's just versions of me, babe
[Post-Chorus: Snoh Aalegra]
I'm in a nightmare havin' a dream
I got a question, am I who I seem? (Oh)
I'm out the matrix from battlin' me
I'm dipped in all black, shadowin' me
[Verse 1: Snoh Aalegra]
Somethin' undefined is now takin' over me
Who am I to fight me for my own soul?
I'm sayin' yes to things that usually are no for me
I kiss the neon night and let it have control
[Chorus: Snoh Aalegra]
I do bad things to good versions of me
I find good things in bad versions of me
I don't know, it's just versions of me, babe
Why do I feel so free when I'm killin' me?
I'm fallin' to the sky caught between all the lines
[Post-Chorus: Snoh Aalegra]
I'm in a nightmare havin' a dream
I got a question, am I who I seem? (Oh)
I'm out the matrix from battlin' me
I'm dipped in all black, shadowin' me
[Refrain: Snoh Aalegra]
I get so sad at myself
When I love what's bad for my health
I wanna do right and I would
But wrong taste and feels so good
[Verse 2: Common]
Clutch the Dutch, these feelings is hard to touch
Puff enough stuff, sometimes life is rough
On the cusp of doin' right, who I'm foolin', right?
A child of the light goin' wild for the night
Cause most the fights I have, yo, I have with myself
A good dude, but I can do bad by myself
It's sad that I felt that I could never be
With nobody, girl, you know, my G
O.D. on the good life, I'm a man, it's simple
Probably the things I been through and the evil that men do
I want my cake and eat it, heartbreak, they take and leave it
The same song I'm bein' featured, I can't delete it (Hey)
The good you can see it but you really a bad girl
Livin' in a mad world, sometimes you want that girl
You ain’t been Madonna through the drama
If this comin' back brings karma, a queen is made to honor
[Chorus: Snoh Aalegra]
I do bad things to good versions of me
I find good things in bad versions of me
I don't know, it's just versions of me, babe (Oh, oh)
[Refrain: Snoh Aalegra]
I get so sad at myself
When I love what's bad for my health
I wanna do right and I would
But wrong taste and feels so good
It's so good
[Outro: Snoh Aalegra]
It's just, it's just, it's just versions of me
It's just versions of me
It's just versions of me, baby
Bad Things Q&A
Who wrote Bad Things's ?
Bad Things was written by Malik Yusef & Manfred Mann & Steve Wyreman & No I.D. & Common & Snoh Aalegra.
Who produced Bad Things's ?
Bad Things was produced by No I.D..
When did Snoh Aalegra release Bad Things?
Snoh Aalegra released Bad Things on Wed Oct 15 2014.
Has Snoh ever performed a stripped version of this song?
Yes, this was posted on her YouTube/VEVO account a few months after the initial release.
Have the artists collaborated before?
Yes, Aalegra previously featured on Common’s July 2014 song, “Hustle Harder,” together with Dreezy.
How did this collaboration come about?
During a November 2014 interview with Interview Magazine, Aalegra said:
When it comes to features, I don’t believe in setting things up myself. I want everything to transpire organically. Common was recording his latest album at the same time I was recording mine—he is also signed to ARTium—but I w...