Open Arms
by SZA

Album: SOS (2022)
Charted: 54
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  • When you do your best you ca-, I done told you
    When you do your best, hell, that's all you can do
    You, me and anybody else
    So they always start talkin'

    Ooh
    Runnin' away from where I'm from
    Never can stay with no one
    Loving you almost feels like something
    When no ones around me, you lost and found me
    I was surrounded

    With open, open, open, open arms (ooh)
    Open arms, you keep me open
    I'm so devoted
    You keep me open, open arms
    I'm so devoted to you, to you, to you

    Spent your life bein' hopeless
    Chokin' on insecurity
    I know all this is bad
    But, please, put a leash on me anyway
    Who needs self-esteem anyway?
    I hate myself to make you stay
    Push me away, I'll be right here

    With open, open, open, open arms (ooh)
    Open arms, you keep me open
    I'm so devoted
    You keep me open, open arms
    I'm so devoted to you, to you, to you

    No matter what come between us, yeah, I decided (ayy)
    I'm forever ridin' (whoa), you're forever guidin' (ayy)
    Pull up on an opp, hit his curb up, slide it (brr)
    Notice when you mad, ain't no words, just silence (ooh)
    You my favorite color, now you seein' every shade of me
    You say that I'm trippin', I hit back like, "Where you takin' me?"
    Locked in for life, on God, no replacin' me
    Consequences, repercussions, karma keep on changin' me
    For you I try, face card valid, ID
    C'est la vie, go to Paris, it ain't five-star, it ain't me
    Over-solid, keep it concrete, I'ma bet it on your whole fee
    Just don't switch sides, I could fire piece your wrist, AP
    Through the ups and downs and all the heat
    Take a turn and tell you what it be
    Backshots make you feel relief, anything, just don't you ever leave

    I guess I gotta go
    I guess it's time to go
    I gotta let you go
    (I'm so devoted)
    You keep me open
    Gotta let you go, gotta let you go
    I gotta let you go, I must
    You're the only one that's holdin' me down
    (You're the only one holdin' me down)
    ('Cause I'm the only one that's holdin' me down) Writer/s: Douglas Ford, Jacques Webster, Michael Uzowuru, Robert Clark Bisel, Solana Rowe, Teo Lucas Halm
    Publisher: Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, Universal Music Publishing Group, Warner Chappell Music, Inc.
    Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

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