OLLA (Only Lovers Left Alive) Lyrics
Fireballs falling out, out of the sky, sky
Ricocheting off the brain into the eye, eye
It's the fate we created in our mind, mind
If we stay, we'll be hated
Looks like we're the only lovers left alive
[Chorus: Jhené Aiko]
We're the only lovers left alive, left alive
Clearly we've been running all our lives to survive
We're the only lovers left alive, look alive
We're the only lovers left
We're the only lovers left alive
[Post-Chorus: Jhené Aiko]
If they don't believe us, they'll keep us from freedom
And being beings of light, beacons of light
If they don't believe us, they'll keep us from freedom
And being beings of light, beacons of light
[Verse 2: Jhené Aiko]
Fireballs falling out, out of the sky, sky
Ricocheting off the brain into the eye, eye
It's the fate we created in our mind, mind
If we stay, we'll be hated
Tell me how you love me again
Tell me how you fell often, often, often
Tell me how you love me again
Tell me how you fell often, often, often
Tell me how you fell, tell me how you feel
Tell me how you fell, tell me how you feel
Tell me how you fell, tell me how you feel
Tell me how you fell, tell me how you feel
We're the only lovers left alive
[Chorus: Jhené Aiko]
We're the only lovers left alive, left alive
Clearly we've been running all our lives to survive
We're the only lovers left alive, look alive
We're the only lovers left
We're the only lovers left alive
[Post-Chorus: Jhené Aiko]
If they don't believe us, they'll keep us from freedom
And being beings of light, beacons of light
If they don't believe us, they'll keep us from freedom
And being beings of light, beacons of light
[Verse 3: Jhené Aiko & Big Sean, Big Sean]
Yeah, so sweet (Yeah)
I guess we the roses that grew from concrete (Straight)
I can't even picture you without me
That's too sad to see like a pic of Mobb Deep (On God)
You never lied, never gave me bad vibes
And we in over our head like we getting baptized (Woah)
And that's a feeling money can't buy (No, no)
Baby girl, you matter to me like black lives (Black lives)
I've been daydreaming these nightmares
Of me waking up and you not there (Where?)
That's so crazy, my lady, I look at you, I wanna have a hundred babies
Raising hell 'til we see Heaven gates (Gates)
We gon turn 100 when it's 2088
And I'ma look at you and say, "Ayy"
We're the only lovers left alive
Under the sun
I'm drunk, baby, I'm drunk
I'm drunk, baby, I'm drunk
We're the only lovers left alive
[Break]
Ooh, yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah
Time for backwards skate
Couples only, couples only
If you don't got a lil bae to play, get off the floor
Couples skate backwards, lovers only
It's the end of the world, y'all, it's the end
This is for lovers only
Come on, 1, 1-2, 1, 1-2, 1
Back, yeah, slow, uh, slow, back
[Chorus: Jhené Aiko]
We're the only lovers left alive
We're the only lovers left alive, left alive
Clearly we've been running all our lives to survive
We're the only lovers left alive, look alive
We're the only lovers left
We're the only lovers left alive
We're the only lovers left alive, left alive
Clearly we've been running all our lives to survive
We're the only lovers left alive, look alive
We're the only lovers left
We're the only lovers left alive
Tell me how you love me again
Tell me how you fell often, often, often
Tell me how you love me again
Tell me how you fell often, often, often
Tell me how you fell, tell me how you feel
Tell me how you fell, tell me how you feel
Tell me how you fell, tell me how you feel
Tell me how you fell, tell me how you feel
We're the only lovers left alive
[Chorus: Jhené Aiko]
We're the only lovers left alive
We're the only lovers left alive, left alive
Clearly we've been running all our lives to survive
We're the only lovers left alive, look alive
We're the only lovers left
We're the only lovers left alive
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Jhené explained on Beats 1 Radio:
In my mind I have this whole vision of the end of the world, with alien invasions and meteors falling and only the lovers being spared their lives. It feels kind of prophetic to me. We’re celebrating but we also have to continue to love each other so that we continue to thrive. I love that we turned it into a jam song, because in my mind we all find refuge in a skating rink. That’s the point where all the lovers are meeting up. This is in the beginning, when the love story is still alive and thriving within the album.
“OLLA” started off a lot more serious [because of] the track that I wrote it to. Then I got with Amaire Johnson, he produced “One Man Can Change The World” with Big Sean. We work really well together; just straight jam sessions. He’d start playing a little something and I’d start singing a lyric. I loved the vibe. It’s more like a party celebrating the fact that we’re the only lovers left.
Similar to their song on Big Sean’s last album “Same Time Pt. 1”, they credited TWENTY88 just because they were both singing at the simultaneously on the third verse. Whereas on the previous song they each had their own parts.
- 1.LSD
- 2.Jukai
- 4.Moments
- 5.OLLA (Only Lovers Left Alive)
- 6.When We Love
- 7.Sativa
- 8.New Balance
- 10.You Are Here
- 11.Never Call Me
- 12.Nobody
- 13.Overstimulated
- 19.Sing To Me
- 20.Frequency
- 21.Ascension
- 22.Trip
- 23.Clear My Mind
- 24.Hello Ego
