In Shimmer, Ryan is talking to his father who left when he was a child. In Ryan’s 2018 collaboration with Benny Blanco Break My Heart, there is an outro of his mother talking on the phone about her relationship with his father
So I gave him an ultimatum, and I said, “I can’t just keep living and mo...
[Chorus]
Father, father
Come home, come home, come home
Come home, come home, come home
My arms are here
My arms are here for you
[Verse 1]
You took me fishing when I was eight
Went to June Lake, came face-to-face
With my future and a deer in the woods
Those times, so gone, so good, yeah
Those times, so gone, so good, oh-oh (So good)
[Refrain]
I never want to feel like that
I never want to feel like that
I never want to feel like that
I never want to feel
I never want to feel like that
I never want to feel like that
[Chorus]
Father, father
Come home, come home, come home
Come home, come home, come home
My arms are here
My arms are here for you
[Verse 2]
I thought I was separate from nature
Now I know otherwise
I might live long enough to see myself
Dying without a child, I
I see myself in you, I (Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah)
I see myself in you
(Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah)
[Refrain]
I never want to feel like that
I never want to feel like that
I never want to feel like that
I never want to feel
I never want to feel like that
I never want to feel like that, oh-oh
[Refrain]
I never want to feel like that
I never want to feel like that
I never want to feel like that
I never want to feel
I never want to feel like that
I never want to feel like that
Talk to me
[Refrain]
I never want to feel like that (Yeah, yeah, yeah)
I never want to feel like that (Yeah, yeah, yeah)
I never want to feel like that (Yeah, yeah, yeah)
I never want to feel (Yeah-yeah)
I never want to feel like that (Yeah-yeah)
I never want to feel like that, oh-oh
[Outro]
I'll wake up, I'm sorry, memorize, apologize
It's alright, yeah, that's how this goes
I read that somewhere, something you wrote me
Years ago
If you look deeper, see my face through the speakers
"It's magic," that's what you said
Remember when I left you crying?
Years ago
Shimmer was written by Kevin Abstract & Ryan Beatty & Happy Perez & Daniel Fox & Austin Anderson.
Shimmer was produced by Ryan Beatty & Daniel Fox & Austin Anderson.
Ryan Beatty released Shimmer on Fri Jan 31 2020.