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Intro
“That’s it, I quit! just one last love note!” Jimmy’s resignation has a small condition attached.
Sally Cicada has him losing sleep in the first verse of “Jacked up on These Girls.” By the second, he’s on a dating app. After the breakup, moving on is giving him a whole new set of people to misunderstand.
Krum made the music. I let the verses keep piling up the hopeful introductions and unanswered texts. Jimmy can find a reason to try almost anywhere, even after he’s announced he’s finished.
At the brewery, he gets a friend to find out whether a woman is interested. She has a boyfriend.
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Lyrics
Chunjay, Chorus:
Jacked up on these girls got me kinda messed up
Packed up in the hills and trying to find what’s next but
I’m stacked up on the thrills so I’m joining the perplexed club
Cracked up from these girls and it got my mind so stressed up
Chunjay, Verse 1:
So I’ve been seeing this girl, let’s call her Sally Cicada
Cause she’s bugging, got my brain vibrating like a theta
Not just something that I made up, strug city for real
Chugging beers with pills simply trying to chill
Losing lots of sleep always tossing and turning
Boozing it cheap, and then always returning
Melatonin for days, in my dreams it’s a haze
Need to boost that serotonin giving her my love gaze
She’s so beautiful from her smile down to her cuticles
Hotter than a crucible! and downright delusional
Always crying, trying to get me to hear
The second that I care she just straight disappears
I start losing weight, and talking like a pirate
I could probably write a book called The Grief Dude Diet
It’d really be a riot with all these anecdotes
That’s it, I quit! just one last love note!
Chunjay, Verse 2:
Back out on the scene so I got a dating app
Got a knack for conversation but swiping like a maniac
Confirmation it’s a match she looks like quite a catch
Two drinks in—and she’s already attached?
No thanks no how looking for a fire escape
Not hitting home plate on the very first date
Always trying to wait but this beard draws them in
It’s like a lady’s tractor beam, I’m guessing it’s Darwinian
I met this South Carolinian out in my parking lot
Wasn’t weird cause we’re neighbors figured it was worth a shot
Introduced myself to her and my homeboy monastic
Got the digits sent a text, feeling fantastic
Then I saw some guy with her the very next week
Shoulda put a ring, dude, cause Chunjay is unique
Firing texts back and forth, made her LOL
And then she super dropped my texts on the carousel
Chunjay, Verse 3:
Figured I’d try dating someone closer to my home
So i started daily texting this client on her phone
Invited her to the pub but she was way too busy
Soon she joined the club of girls making jamey dizzy
Started going to the brewery an talking to bartenders
Girls without ring jewelry were obvious contenders
This slender girl named Julie started messing with my mind
Then Benni oh so cooly did reconnaissance to find
If she was interested, it turned out that she wasn’t
“She has a boyfriend, she thinks you’re great but she doesn’t
Want to sent a message like she has that Jamey interest”
Maybe I’d have better luck with crafty girls on Pinterest
I knew this blonde kid and she went and done grew up
I took her out to hang, we got that red wine solo cup
My homie j-Qwess thought that we might hook up
Then she insta-posted ultrasounds from her last checkup (doh)
Credits
Music: Krum
Lyrics and Vocals: Chunjay
Album-wide credits
Additional Credits
Production: Flatline, Chunjay
Mixing, Engineering, Co-Production, Mastering, Additional Scratches, Everything but the Kitchen Sink: DJ Sean P at TWLVS in Fort Worth, Texas
Vocal Production/Consultation: Krum
Pre-Mixing: Flatline, Chunjay, Krum, Shedlyn/Chris Felix, Annex, Grizzly Beatz, David Mathewes
Background Vocals: Flatline, DJ Sean P, Chunjay, and Friends
Executive Producer: Chunjay
Lyrics and music copyright 2017 Neopolis Media in partnership with Invisible Library Records. All rights reserved. M. Walker & J. Bennett Artist rights (BMI).
Guest/co-writer FYI: Music: Krum Lyrics and Vocals: Chunjay These source credits are attribution information, not a lyric-scope blocker; they do not specify legal ownership shares.
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