He sings, “First you both go out your way / And the vibe is feeling strong.” For a friendship to begin, people need to step out of what they would normally do for themselves and help someone else. This time it’s about friendship and brotherhood and how those things are created. To finish his pre-chorus, Khalifa sings, “And now you gon’ be with me for the last ride.” The memory of Paul Walker will stay with the narrator until he dies, reminding him of the good times and supposedly encouraging him onward.Īfter Puth sings the chorus, Khalifa comes back for a bridge. But what does make Walker family for the narrator is that Walker was “standing there by side” for “verything I went through.” No matter how good their time was together, he wants Paul Walker to be even happier now.īefore reverting to Puth for the chorus, Khalifa sings his family-focused pre-chorus: “How can we not talk about family when family’s all that we got?” He calls Walker family though neither is Khalifa family to him nor are most of the people the song is for. Khalifa continues singing, “Those were the days / Hard work forever pays / Now I see you in a better place.” While their time together was wonderful and the hard work they put in together will be remembered, Khalifa’s narrator likes to think of Walker as being in an even better place. Life isn’t just about successes–sometimes death happens and can bring things to a sudden halt. The narrator sings, “But something told me that it wouldn’t last / Had to switch up / Look at things different, see the bigger picture.” Khalifa is explaining that even though things used to seem to be so good, they couldn’t stay that way forever. The " path" that Khalifa mentions is different from all their paths together those paths were on earth and were adventures they had while still alive, but now Walker has gone elsewhere that Khalifa's narrator can't follow him to.īringing back the traveling imagery, Khalifa sings, “I know we loved to hit the road and laugh”–possibly a reference to the Furious movies, since Paul Walker did so much driving in them. The image suggests the narrator is standing by Walker's grave, talking to himself. He asks himself how anyone could have predicted that even though he and Paul did so much together that one day he'd be remembering Paul's death. (Interestingly, no records show up that indicate Khalifa or Puth knew Walker.) He sings, "Damn, who knew? / All the planes we flew / Good things we've been through / That I'll be standing right here talking to you / 'Bout another path." The song's narrator misses Walker and wishes that he could have him back. “Let’s normalize having these f-ing lines in songs, the same way somebody might talk about f-ing a girl or f-ing a guy.When it's Wiz Khalifa's turn to rap, he focuses more on the good old times shared by those who loved Paul walker. “I was like, ‘It’s about time I say something out of pocket in a song,'” he said, chuckling. The line “shoot a child in yo’ mouth while I’m ridin’,” he said, was intended to be jarring, while also helping break a stigma around lyrics focused on queer lust. “The way everything is shot, the way the dialogue goes on, the way the background sounds are used, everything about it is so artsy.”Īs for some of the song’s more openly sexual lyrics, the rapper says that was fully intentional. “That was one of the first gay films that I had watched, and I thought the theme was so dope of calling somebody by your own name,” he said. When it comes to the song’s title, Lil Nas X fully acknowledges that he was deeply influenced by the 2017 film of the same name and wanted to create an anthem where he fully embraced his sexuality. “I can’t pretend I don’t see you doing this sh–, and I can’t pretend I don’t notice these things,” he said about his friend’s sexuality. The opening lines of the song, he said, track the literal interaction he had with the guy, from being called up, his wish to “catch you throwing smiles in my face,” and seeing his friend partying, doing drugs and drinking his time in quarantine away.
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