“Hell of a Time” is the second single released from Hoodie Allen’s 2019 album, Whatever USA.
The track’s title and release date were announced during an Instagram Live on July 25, 2019, and the song was teased on various social platforms before release:
[Chorus]
It's been a minute since I called you drunk
It’s been a minute since we fucked things up
It's been a minute since I called you mine (Called you mine)
It's been a hell of a time
[Verse 1]
Check it
They say that distance is too long when you’re writing a song
And every memory take me back to the places we've gone
The clock ticks life away, I link in the park
You a star, why you always keep your place in the dark?
When I was far from home, a home far from alone
I'm so out of my zone, can't get off of my phone
We go outta control, I chief Patrick Mahomes
You leave soon as I go, it's like I got a chaperone
Or another shadow, World War III when we go to battle
I never knew what I would do without you
But I think it's 'bout time that I figure out soon
Check my phone and it's half past noon
[Chorus]
It’s been a minute since I called you drunk
It’s been a minute since we fucked things up
It's been a minute since I called you mine (Called you mine)
It’s been a hell of a time
It's been a minute since I caused you stress
It's been a minute since we've been our best
It’s been a minute, but it don't feel fine (Don't feel fine)
It's been a hell of a time, a hell, hell of a time
[Post-Chorus]
Whoa-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh
Whoa-oh-oh-oh-oh-whoa
Whoa-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh
Whoa-oh-oh-oh
[Verse 2]
Yeah, that love was punch drunk
Adam Sandler, fucked up
27 months of only getting me roughed up
Oh, I feel like love sucks, since the world introduced us
Turned my heart to stone just like Medusa
You said you used to being used up
I think we got a problem, but we far from Houston
I'm so NASA, and she so passive-aggressive
I ask her a question, get asked like 20 questions
Got no chance outta friendship, no way I could mend this heart
I might as well just head for the exit, ooh
I feel like I just tripled my investment
But what am I left with?
[Chorus]
It's been a minute since I called you drunk
It's been a minute since we fucked things up
It's been a minute since I called you mine (Called you mine)
It's been a hell of a time
It's been a minute since I caused you stress
It's been a minute since we've been our best
It's been a minute, but it don't feel fine (Don't feel fine)
It's been a hell of a time, a hell, hell of a time
[Post-Chorus]
Whoa-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh (Whoa)
Whoa-oh-oh-oh-oh-whoa (A hell of a time)
Whoa-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh
Whoa-oh-oh-oh
(It's been a hell of a time, a hell, hell of a time)
Whoa-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh
Whoa-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh
Whoa-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh
Whoa-oh-oh-oh
Hell of a Time was written by Andrew Goldstein & Hoodie Allen & Dylan William.
Hell of a Time was produced by Dylan William & Andrew Goldstein.
Hoodie Allen released Hell of a Time on Fri Aug 02 2019.