don’t come back Lyrics
If you wanna go ahead and lie to me
Throw it all out now, that's fine with me, uh
If I'm not enough for you, honestly
I hope you don't come back
When you see that I'm better off
When you're all broke down and you're missing us
When you finally figure out just what you lost
I hope you don't come back
[Verse 1]
I can feel you shutting off now
Like I always expected you would
Stop believing all your friends now
'Cause they all say that you get bored
I feel it, you're 'bout to cut me out your life
I feel it, just know that there's no second try
[Chorus]
If you wanna go ahead and lie to me
Throw it all out now, that's fine with me, uh
If I'm not enough for you, honestly
I hope you don't come back
When you see that I'm better off
When you're all broke down and you're missing us
When you finally figure out just what you lost
I hope you don't come back
You can see me shutting off now (Off now)
I don't know what else you'd expect
Really thought I knew you so well (So well)
Should've known that's what I'd get for thinking that you cared at all
I bet you'll blame it on the alcohol again
Don't be acting so surprised when you see there's no second try (Yeah)
[Chorus]
If you wanna go ahead and lie to me
Throw it all out now, that's fine with me, uh
If I'm not enough for you, honestly
I hope you don't come back
When you see that I'm better off
When you're all broke down and you're missing us
When you finally figure out just what you lost
I hope you don't come back
[Bridge]
When you haven't heard from me in forever
Don't come back
When you find out there's nobody better
Don't come back
(No, don't come back)
[Outro]
If you wanna go ahead and lie to me
Throw it all out now that's fine with me
About
“don’t come back” shows her frustrations with her partner, and wants to cut him out of her life. The track describes the feeling of wanting to cut someone out of your life who is toxic. In a TikTok, McRae explained the track, saying; “It honestly just talks about, if you wanna be mean do not come back into my life.” The track interpolates “Ride wit Me” by Nelly and City Spud.
The track was teased in the credits for the “what would you do?” music video released on May 20th, 2022.
Q&A
Find answers to frequently asked questions about the song and explore its deeper meaning
A lot of my songs on this album are super self-analytical and self-deprecating at times—they’re some of the more intense songs that I’ve ever written. But I wanted the album to start with something lighter, and something that felt kind of empowering. It’s an interpolation of a Nelly song [“Ride Wit Me”], which is super cool—I’ve never done something like that.
—via Apple Music
In an interview with Variety, Tate stated,
I was in the studio with [producer] Charlie Handsome and he started playing a bunch of different loops. Then he played this one – honestly, I just start free-styling to see what came out and we were just singing old songs. He started singing “Ride Wit Me,” and I was like, “Is that a Nelly song? I’ll Tate-ify it and make it a bad b***h empowering version.
- 1.?
- 2.don’t come back
- 3.i’m so gone
- 5.chaotic
- 9.boy x
- 10.you’re so cool
- 11.feel like shit
- 12.go away
