RAYE
Hard Out Here. lyrics
- Language
- English
- Level
- Intermediate
- Released
- 2022
- Genre
- R&B, Pop
- Length
- 3:12
After years and fears and smiling through my tears
All I ask of you is open your ears
'Cause the truth ain't pretty my dear
It's been dark, been hard out (whoo), uh
On my way, figured a way, figured a way out (yah)
My pen is a gun, pen is a gun, I'm finna spray now (yah)
He said I was out, said I was done, look at his face now (yah)
Hm, hm, ah-ah, uh-ah (whoo! Yah)
Tell them boys, feeling them boys, meet at the steakhouse (yah)
I been a mess, I'm in a dress and I got my cakes out (yah)
Sleeping on her, sleeping on me, I'm in your face now (yah)
Hm, oh, no-no-no-no, no, no (yah)
What you know about hustlin'?
As a young girl (young girl) in the dungeons (dungeons)
What you know about making amends (yah)
With the devils in your face? You must pretend, uh-ah (yah)
CR0, I'm from the ends, but I'm a actor (yeah)
Smile in your face all of the pricks, all of the wankers (yah)
I had to chill, smoke it away, manage my anger (yah)
Huh, uh (yeah)
Ooh, what you know about systems? (Yah)
About drugged drinks, fucking nearly dying from addictions (yah)
You start to wonder why I'm Christian
Without the Lord, I'd take my life for all the times I've been a victim
Oh, no weapon formed against me shall ever prosper (whoo! Yah)
Baby, I bounce, baby, I bounce, baby, I bounce back
Baby, I bounce back (bounce, bounce, bounce back, yah)
Baby, I bounce, baby, I bounce, baby, I bounce back
Hm, no weapon formed against me shall ever prosper (yah)
Baby, I bounce, baby, I bounce, baby, I bounce back
Baby, I bounce back (bounce, bounce, bounce back)
Baby, I bounce, baby, I bounce, baby, I bounce back (yah)
No weapon formed against me shall ever
All the white men CEOs, fuck your privilege
Get your pink chubby hands off my mouth, fuck you think this is?
I told my lawyer stand by (war), there is no wrath like a woman scorned
Huh, now I bet you wish (yah)
Baby, I bounce, baby, I bounce, baby, I bounce back (yah)
Devil's a liar, I am the guy, call me the Conrad (yah)
I been too nice, triple the price, pay me the whole bag (yah)
These motherfuckers cheatin' on me, am I a wag? Never again (yah)
Top of the day, top of the day, top of the day to you (yah)
This LP's full of the shit I'm gonna say to you, ooh (yah)
See how I flow when I'm in pain, I'm gonna pray for you (yah)
Then I'ma aim for you, and it's a shame for you, shame for you (yah)
Oh yeah, what you know about violence? (Yah)
I'm on smoke now, babe, I think it's time to cut the violins
Can't see you, I'm looking at the inside of my eyelids
I'll never stop fighting, all in God's timing
Timing
And I'm about to have these grown men crying
(Crying) hm
You wasn't trying, you was sitting on diamonds
Mm (diamonds)
You gon' have to see me now, I'm shining
Hyped up, blinding, very fucking frightening
All these lies, now I see it so clear
See for girls like me from the bottom of the tier
Believe that it's always been hard out here
Baby, I bounce, baby, I bounce, baby, I bounce back
Baby, I bounce back (bounce, bounce, bounce back)
Baby, I bounce, baby, I bounce, baby, I bounce back
Hm, no weapon formed against me shall ever prosper
Baby, I bounce, baby, I bounce, baby, I bounce back
Baby, I bounce back (bounce, bounce, bounce back)
Baby, I bounce, baby, I bounce, baby, I bounce back
Hm, no weapon formed against me shall ever prosper
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Key vocabulary
- addictions
- strong harmful dependenceB2
- blinding
- too bright for eyesB2
- christian
- follower of JesusB2
- figured
- understood; guessedB2
- i'd
- I would (I’d)B2
- lord
- ruler; GodB2
- shame
- guilt or embarrassmentB2
- timing
- right momentB2
- violence
- physical harmB2
- baby
- very young childA1
About this song
RAYE is a British South London singer-songwriter born Rachel Agatha Keen. She works across contemporary pop, R&B, dancehall, and gospel and is known for her debut album My 21st Century Blues and charting hits such as “Escapism.”