Chords for Jessie Reyez "Figures" Official Lyrics & Meaning | Verified

Ashley fucking Madison exists.
How ridiculous is that?
That's a site where married people can go and look for other people that are willing
to have affairs.
Ashley Madison is bullshit, okay?
It's bullshit.
If [Em] you're in a marriage and you don't want to do it, then leave.
Then don't put someone through that.
Why?
Why not just be real? _ _ _
_ [E] _ _ _ [Em] _ _ _
[N] You know when you break up with someone and you have memories in that city?
It's like you don't want to be in that city because then your heartbreak, it's just hard
to heal a wound when you're in it.
I was depressed.
I was sad.
I ended up staying up all night being messed up, my heart broken when you can't really,
I don't know, you just can't really rest.
So I woke up late and I went down for the session and it looked like hell.
My eyes were puffy.
It _ was just rough, man.
It's so ironic to have people vibing with it and supporting the music from such a dark moment.
God has a sense of humor, you know? _
_ Fakers, I gave you eye to die and you gave me games.
Love, fakers.
I was there.
I didn't dip.
I was like real life writer.
Even when bad shit went down, I didn't go nowhere.
I'm the one crying cause you just won't change.
Love, fakers.
In retrospect, it feels like you shouldn't be asking someone to change, to be honest with you.
If someone was asking you to change something that's fundamental to your character, how
would you feel?
Would you feel like, okay, I'm going to conform so you can love me or would you feel like,
go find someone else?
There's got to be someone out there that's going to see the beauty in me that you don't see.
I gave it all and you gave me shit.
Love, fakers.
_ I wish I could do exactly what you did.
I wish I was an asshole like you so that my skin wouldn't hurt so bad when you did it to me.
And if someone's putting you through it, they're immune to how much it's hurting you and they're
immune to how much you're crying.
That's usually cause they never fucking been through it or usually cause it's never been
done to them.
And so you want to be the one to teach them, but it's not our job to be someone else's karma.
_ _ _ I wish I could hurt you bad.
I will fuck the world, I will fuck their friends, I will put it on Facebook, I'll do all of
that if I was an asshole.
If I'm not an asshole.
Love, what would you do if you couldn't get _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
me something so special, something so real?
Tell me boy, how _ awkward you feel.
If you could, _ _ _ _ _ that's what I wish that. _ _ _ _
[Eb] _ _ _ _ _ _ When [N] _ you break up with someone and then they leave your life
all you're really left with is that wound.
And if you miss someone enough
and all you have is that wound left,
sometimes you don't want that wound to close up.
I'm the one that's real.
Like you're gonna lose me
and you don't realize how much of a writer I am.
You don't realize how honest I am.
Bye. _ _
_ _ _ Figures.
Mm.
I'm the bad guy cause I can't learn to trust.
Love and figures.
_ You say sorry once and you think it's enough.
You ever had those apologies where someone's like,
all right, I'm sorry.
And then they want to move on.
They might be sincere in wanting to like heal the problem
and move on.
But for the future, it's kind of just like putting a bandaid
on something that's like rotting.
You need to, you need to understand.
And understanding is like putting alcohol on it
and making sure, you know.
I've got a lineup of girls and a lineup of guys
begging for me just to give them a try.
Yeah, fuck yeah, it's true, man.
That helped me get over it too.
It was nice to know that so many people
were ready to be replacements.
Figure I'm _ _ _ willing to stay cause I'm sick for your life.
Wish I could hurt you, bye.
I got a lot of messages, which is beautiful.
They get like feedback from people,
but messages from girls that were like,
I'm going through it.
And these are the words that I don't know how to express.
I don't know how to say it.
Man, there was this one girl that she hit me
and she was like, I was in the car with my boyfriend
and I've stayed with him after he cheated
and it was a big thing to go through.
And they were driving in the car and like,
and the song came on and she goes, he started crying.
And I was like, oh man, that's sweet.
Like that's so sweet that that caused empathy in him
that like, I wish I could have,
I could have evoked in someone else before, you know?
And that's like helping her situation
and helping her get through it.
It's dope. _ _ _
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