Chords for Charlie Puth "Attention" Official Lyrics & Meaning | Verified

I couldn't come out with a song like this as a brand new artist.
I kind of had to tailor Swift in 2006 when she put out my song.
It was very approachable and it could be applied to a lot of situations.
And I took that same approach.
Like, you know, I'm only one call away.
I'ma get as many fucking fans as I can.
And I'm gonna get their mothers to like the music too.
And maybe their dads even.
And the whole family's gonna listen to my shit.
And it's like bright and happy and everyone has their iPhones in the air and they're all singing along.
And now we're on the, this is about me music.
This is what I wanted to say for a long time. _ _ _
_ [Em] _ _ _ When I came up with the song [N] originally, I was on this hotel bed in this really cool
room in the Philippines.
I'm thinking back about the time I was in that hotel room and she was literally crying
to me about how mistreated she is by her ex and had me thinking that I could be the
guy who could fix her.
Like girls are crazy.
They're amazing and crazy at the same time.
It almost paints the picture of the background music of all the parties that I went to with her.
_ With like a soft kick with noise under it. _ _ _ _ _
I don't know, something that people could walk to.
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_ [G] It's a very small industry, this music industry.
So you hear, oh she's saying this about you.
She told this person that you're shit and you're no good. _
And I never heard it from the worst's mouth.
So I always thought that'd be interesting to include that right off the get go.
I have a very Swedish approach to lyrics.
Sometimes my initial scratch lyrics make no sense.
As long as the syllables sound good.
Like run around, run around, run around, run around, run around, run [N] _ _ _ around. _ _
_ _ _ _ Typical LA party is full of dudes who _ look like they took six hours to figure out what
kind of bomber they were going to wear.
Whereas I just walk in with a shirt that I've been wearing for two days.
Because I wrote a good song in that shirt and I wanted to write a good song two days
later so I just thought it'd be a good idea to keep that shirt on.
So I kept the same shirt on.
They're like, who's this kid with this half eyebrow coming into my rented house party
with my rented Audi in front.
It's that type of shit. _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ I go into the edition hotel and she's wearing this very distinct perfume that it's almost
like she wore it on purpose because it's the perfume that she wore when I first fell in
love with her.
And I've never fallen in love with anybody like that before.
So I came in with someone who _ I was definitely having a nice time with and I enjoyed her company.
But she did it on purpose.
She wore that perfume on purpose to fuck me up.
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_ _ When I saw her I just, I kind of, it sounds mean but I just ditched the girl that I was
with and I was so enamored by this girl that I wanted everything.
I knew it was over but I just thought if I walked up to her something would ignite again.
But I figure she's not coming home with me tonight.
She just wants attention. _ _
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_ _ When we would be talking in the hotel she'd be like, you want to sleep over?
I'd be like, yes I'm going to get it in.
And then nothing would happen which is totally fine but after the fifth time of that happening
she's just, I knew what she was doing.
I knew that she was trying to make me so embedded to her that I would never leave her but I
would never get what I wanted out of her.
So she was doing that repetitively just to get something out of me which was for me to
be attached to her hip at all times. _ _ _ _ _ _
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What are you doing to me?
What are you doing now?
What are you doing to me?
What are you doing now?
It might have been the first time that I just kissed her or something simple like that.
I just kind of in the most manly way possible just shed a little tear because it was a lot.
And I didn't expect it to be a lot either.
It's a real thing.
It's not an act.
_ It's hard to listen to it.
So this new music is genuinely me and kind of minor and dark and I'm not always happy
Charlie of what I appear to be in interviews.
I'm crazy.
I have perfect pitch and I hear car horns and I have to leave the party because I heard
too many car horns and this girl's hitting on me and it stresses me out and I keep hearing
the car horns and I'm thinking about a song that I made a couple hours ago and I'm comparing
it to the key of the car horn which is two notes together and they're rubbing up against
each other and it's stressing me out and she's giving me a drink and I'm getting too, it's
too much to handle so I have to go home and write a sad song.
This is what this album is about.
This is what this new music is about.
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