Chords for Conan Gray "Alley Rose" Official Lyrics & Meaning | Genius Verified

I think of Ally Rose as my very first love song.
It's not a song about hating someone.
It's very much a song where I look at something that happened and I'm really grateful.
I could go through anything.
As long as I write a good song about it, it's chill. _ _ _
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[F] I wrote Ally Rose right after I got dumped.
I've never been dumped before and I was in my first relationship and it was _ devastating.
10 out of 10, recommend.
It's really fun.
It's really formative.
Really changes you as a person.
I was flying to London in order to see this person that I was _ dating.
At least I thought I was.
I landed in London and then got dumped [Ab] immediately over text message [N] on the airplane.
It was hilarious.
Of course, that's what happened for my first breakup ever.
Then I was just in London with no one to see and nothing to do.
And so the idea for Ally Rose popped up in my mind.
Essentially, in my mind, I was walking on Abbey Road.
So the song was originally called Abbey Road.
But then I figured I probably [Eb] shouldn't name my favorite song off of my new album,
Found [Em] Heaven, after the most famous album of all time. _ _ _ _ _
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_ [Db] _ _ You were a man.
[D] When you're in a relationship, there are these weird things where you feel like you can't
really talk about them.
The biggest problem that can arise in any relationship, whether it's a friendship or
family or you're dating someone, is just miscommunication.
It was just this situation where I could tell a ton of shit in life was being held [A] onto
this person and I knew that there was so much more than I could really understand because
[Bb] they were never going to tell me.
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_ _ I think in every relationship, you have this moment.
It's so hard to explain.
You don't know why, but you just know deep in your heart that for whatever reason, it's the end.
I remember this moment so clearly.
I could just feel something in the air and I called my best friend the next morning and
I was like, I just have this weird feeling [Ab] that that was the last time I'm ever going
[A] to see that person.
And [E] she was like, no, no, what are you talking about? It's fine.
You're just being paranoid.
And then I got dumped. _
_ Don't [N] leave me hanging alone again.
_ _ Don't leave me hanging alone _ again.
Oh, where'd you go, go, Ali Rose?
Oh, where'd you go, go, go?
So I came up with the name Ali Rose because I wanted something that you didn't really
think too hard when you heard the name.
The beauty of music, which goes against genius in [Db] every way, is it can mean whatever [Am] it means
to you [Gm] as a person.
So [E] I mostly just wanted it to make people [Ab] just think but also not think at all.
[B] It's a name that makes you think of somebody in particular, but also of nobody.
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_ _ _ [N] _ _ _ Yeah, okay.
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_ The quote in the second verse is something that this person used to say to me all the
time where they were always like, oh, why are you so nervous?
Why are you so freaked out?
I was really scared because I was really close friends with this person and my biggest fear
in our relationship was that we'd stop being friends and then life happens, love happens,
and then you stop being friends.
More than even losing someone to date.
I couldn't care less about that because I'd never even dated people in my life.
The thing that was most devastating to me was losing a friend.
So that's why I wanted to say in that verse, this is why I was nervous.
Of course, this is how I feel, but you're probably not going to be friends with your
ex, let's be real. _ _ _ _ _ _ _
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_ _ _ _ _ _ I always thought that if I were to end up going through a breakup that I was going to
be the [F] person who just dumped this person because I'm so afraid of [D] true intimacy, which
is just something I've [Eb] always dealt with.
I thought necks were made for bruising.
I thought lips were made for lies because every experience of love that I'd grown up
with or witnessing my friends or witnessing my family growing up and things, I'd never
really seen love work out.
So I figured since that was all I'd ever known, I would probably just end up doing the same.
So in a way, getting dumped was a really nice surprise for me because I was like, oh, okay,
so it's fine.
Maybe I'm not going to commit the sins of my parents.
Yeah.
[Em] _ _ _ _ _ It's just a summer fling if it's all experimental and you go back to safer things, but I [Fm] swore
hands were made for fighting.
I swore eyes were made to cry, but you're the first person that I've seen who's proven
that might be a lie.
_ _ I used to always think of everything [E] as so black and white.
Life isn't like that.
Nothing is black [D] and white.
There can be good things that happen along with the bad and they come together.
So this whole bridge is me saying.
I thought all of these things, but actually you're the first person who's ever proven
me wrong and shown me that it doesn't always have to be that way.
And even though things ended bad, there's still so much good that came out of it. _
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So I'm like a huge fucking loner.
I have like three friends and they're super close and they mean everything to me.
This person was one of them.
I wanted to end the song with like, I thought that I was your only friend because it's just
one last moment.
I was like, that was sad because we were really close friends [F] and hopefully every _ relationship
that you experience [E] in life is someone that you would consider a friend because you'd be surprised.
Some people are not dating their [Em] friends and that's not a good thing.
I think you should date people that you like.
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I don't like to be heartbroken listening to really depressing music walking around in London.
It's actually my favorite activity on earth.
[E] I've been doing Genius interviews since I was 18 or 19 and I'm 25 now.
It's weird.
It's like this little time capsule of my entire life as an adult is