Charli XCX
New Shapes lyrics
- Language
- English
- Level
- Beginner
- Released
- 2022
- Genre
- Pop
- Length
- 3:21
What you want
I ain't got it
What you want
What you want
I ain't got it
What you want
I ain't got it
I don't know why I got a tendency to run away
Don't know why I'm always pushing for a sweet escape
Even though I feel so close, I just can't control how I feel
And I gotta be free, need to breathe
But sometimes I need all night, all day
We could fall in love in new shapes
New shapes
And when the morning comes
I'm sorry, I stayed
Tell you honestly, I can't change, can't change
What you want
I ain't got it
What you want
What you want
I ain't got it
I ain't got it
What if I created places for you to let go?
What if you wanted to watch
Because we both know?
That now we are so close
We don't have to fight how we feel
When the lights and the skins are cold
I surrender to it all night, all day
Then we fall in love in new shapes (new shapes, baby)
New shapes
Then the morning comes all misty, we fade
'Cause we fell in love in new shapes (what?)
In new shapes, oh
What you want
I ain't got it (got it)
What you want (we could go on)
What you want
I ain't got it
I ain't got it
Thinking of me, but you're stuck on the west side again
Maybe we're meant for another dimension, babe
Deep in the dark of your brain like a star in space
You call it art, but you pulled on my heart
And you twisted it into a new shape
Yeah, I'm dive bar-ing again and again
Trying to get up close to you
Fucked if I know how it's gonna end
But honestly, life would be better if I never met you in the first place
What you want
I ain't got it (yeah)
What you want (I ain't got it)
What you want
I ain't got it
(Charli, Caroline, Chris)
What you want (what you want, what you want)
What you want
I ain't got it
What you want (ah-ha, ha, yeah)
What you want
I ain't got it (I ain't got it, baby)
I ain't got it
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Key vocabulary
- even
- equal; same levelA1
- fall
- go downA1
- skins
- animal hidesA2
- feel
- have an emotionA1
- know
- have understandingA1
- what
- which thingA1
- ain't
- is not; are not
- don't
- do notA1
- when
- at what timeB1
- honestly
- in a truthful way
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About this song
Charli XCX is an English pop and hyperpop artist, born in 1992 in Essex, and known for writing and producing much of her own material as well as collaborating across mainstream and underground dance scenes. She is particularly associated with early breakthrough singles like "I Love It" and later left-field work such as the hyperpop-leaning Vroom Vroom era and the 2024 album BRAT.