Watsky - What Goes Up Lyrics






It's too nice out
Let's play hooky
And get high 'til we both float away
We won't show today
Doesn't matter what they say
What goes up can stay (Uh, uh)

If you tell me I'm the one
While we're lying in the sun
Would you sign it on a piece of paper?
Do you know what you're about?
Could we live beyond our doubts
In a world where we don't need erasers?
Could you ever love a thief?
Can I steal away your grief
And suspend your disbelief?
Let's put on a show
'Cause it's never what you say
No, it's always in the way
That you say what you mean
Oh, oh, oh
Wrap your legs around my back
And hold me tight until we're talkin' in tongues
Then when we pass the spirit
We can yell forever at the top of our lungs

Just float
Just float
Just float

It's too nice out
Let's play hooky
And get high 'til we both float away
We won't show today
Doesn't matter what they say
What goes up can stay

Don't sweat the goons
All we do is crack a smile
When we hear 'em callin'
"You should go get a room"
Every stop to think the pollen in the air
Is from all the flowers fuckin' each other?
But why not let them bloom?
Let's get consumed
Outside, outside, outside
Inside o' you
So forget me not
We're doin' trust falls
Up at the mountaintop
C'mon, don't let me drop
Now that we've found a spot
And when we swung high on the pendulum
We just hung there in the sky

Just float
Just float
Just float

It's too nice out
Let's play hooky
And get high 'til we both float away
We won't show today
Doesn't matter what they say
What goes up can stay





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  1. x.... ....

    Oh no...........

  2. B.... ....

    this reminds me of brockhampton. love the new music

  3. T.... Y....

    You're a huge inspiration

  4. B.... ....

    Man I remember listening to watsky when he had 200k subs... YOUVE COME SO FAR😭😭😭

  5. j.... h....

    watsky 100% gives me chills in pretty much every song...he really gets it haha the poetry is even spectacular :) pretty stellar dude

  6. l.... ....

    Can someone please explain me what you think he means by "could we live beyond our doubts in a world where we don't need erasers?"?

  7. N.... �....

    whats the name of the frame on the whole video??

  8. C.... G....

    Bro you have changed so much

  9. W.... F....

    Beware, people with brain cells. If you go too low in the comments you find a landslide of people who missed the purpose of the autotune in the song and are going "Lol u go mainstrem pop lov song autotune trash cring". It hurts to read with how obnoxious it is

  10. M.... B....

    I’m glad to “rediscover “ an artist that evolved instead of followed.

  11. V.... M....

    If owl city made a baby with T-pain and that baby made a baby with swayze.. this song would be the offspring. Still though, I digs ✌

  12. F.... ....

    Please somebody put subtitles in Spanish to the songs of Watsky, there is none.

  13. M.... W....

    Watsky reminds of 2008-10.

  14. g.... 2....

    c'est la vie

  15. N.... G....

    Gave the 4000th like

  16. J.... B....

    So how does this video tie in to tiny glowing screens. Trying to build a mythos here.

  17. M.... ....

    Where'd the music video to "the legend of hard head ned" go?!

  18. I.... ....

    Watsky is a VISIONARY. The absolute injustice to everyone who hasn't heard you before is DEAFENING.

  19. N.... ....

    anyone else hear across the universe at first

  20. C.... K....

    Why don’t you get any recognition

  21. p.... ....

    What happened to sloppy seconds watsky.... man you honestly fell off

  22. D.... P....

    Please never stop putting out music

  23. D.... B....

    0:41 Is this the joji pool?

  24. J.... G....

    You should do an unbox therapy video lol

  25. L.... M....

    anyone else notice how green his eyes are? Like wow.

  26. C.... M....

    Loved the whole album but I wish there was more though.

  27. T.... ....

    I feel like I just stumbled into a parallel universe where somebody named Watsky suddenly exists who didn't previously exist and all the past memories/art have been Adjusted Into The Matrix because I haven't heard your work before? anyway thank you. yes. keep banging out that blue flower frequency as it comes and never get caught on any identity smaller than the glory of your Words 💙

  28. C.... M....

    This was an absolutely beautiful video, thank you Watsky.

  29. R.... M....

    this hurt my fucking soul to listen to..... you are so much better than this auto tune garbage... wtf happened to you...

  30. A.... ....

    Watsky, your music is meaningful and touches the heart. I bought your book and read it twice so far. You are such a strong individual, overcoming stage anxiety and dealing with seizures. Life sucks and will always push you down but Its only 1 persons job to get back up.

    Your story's bring light to this shitty world in a way and allowed me to read your thoughts on paper and let me to walk in your shoes imaginatively. As many people keep saying, thank you for just simply being you. I love your content. Keep having fun with it!

    P.S. I could listen to you doing spoken word poetry all day, its that good.

  31. S.... J....

    3:40 I got mad for real lol
    https://youtu.be/oVcyEuqNbIs

  32. J.... G....

    So damn sad i missed your show when you came to Santa Cruz. Come back, definitely enjoy your music George. Keep it going.

  33. J.... J....

    Killed it in Worcester last night

  34. r.... r....

    I love watsky more than I love myself

  35. K.... ....

    i love watsky, and his new album is good but i feel like most of the songs where pretty heavy on the autotune

  36. R.... N....

    Please make a pale kid raps fast remake

    R.... N....

    He probably won't. Said it wasn't really what he's about, and it's why he took the video down

  37. L.... v....

    pls never use autotune again. it cheapens your art.

    L.... v....

    It was intentional. Supposed to symbolize the song's story being full of fakery and shit

  38. M.... B....

    “In a world where we don’t need erasers” is beautiful

  39. m.... ....

    Not too big on the auto tune. Bu it did grow on me. Groovy fucking tune bro! KEep it up! I would love to hear another style of summer album from you :) Can't wait to see what else you come up with!

  40. S.... (....

    I kbow you will never have time until your old but 2h30m rap https://drive.google.com/file/d/1DcU0Yh3zzBQY0btvVGFELTcl0IZxZClq/view?usp=drivesdk

  41. T.... ....

    Love your stuff, but the autotune just wasn't for me. I can imagine this would have sounded better with some different editing on the vocals like something closer to what Dan Avidan does with multi-voice editing, but that's just my opinion of course. Keep up the good work dude!

  42. P.... C....

    My friend Jeremy showed me Watsky years ago. He just recently died January 19th. We used to sing IDGAF at work religiously. He was such a good person. He also loved Watsky. Every time I listen to him, I think about my friend. One of your biggest fans has moved on to the next life man. I'm still here though so keep cranking out the hits. I will always listen.

  43. C.... C....

    wait a minute... watsky using autotune?

  44. J.... G....

    I miss the old watsky. What happened to the rich girl video?

  45. C.... M....

    the most influential artist of our time ♡

  46. b.... ....

    For someone who's currency is authenticity, the auto-tune is a bit distracting, - tune and harmonies are sweet, but really, calm down the melodyne, ^oo^

  47. C.... D....

    *Rock appears from pool* "ANOTHER HAND HAS TOUCHED THE BEACON"

  48. J.... L....

    Beautiful Wat

  49. A.... G....

    At first I was so shocked by the auto tune I gave it a miss but I’d like to call that a mistake. Big time underrated. Auto tune is a part of the style of this. Think it adds

  50. L.... M....

    Sounds autotuned

  51. F.... ....

    Keep it flowing

  52. D.... ....

    Personally hated the autotune but you do you, I listen to your music for it's poetic beauty. I'll still listen to this hundreds of times despite the annoying high pitch noises, the lyrics tho ^.^

  53. R.... S....

    Watsky please drop the auto tune. We hate it. We much prefer your normal singing voice....

  54. t.... ....

    This song gets better every time I listen to it. I don't know how you do it, man. Please never stop.

  55. D.... R....

    "A Video"

  56. i.... ....

    Love the auto tune and some of my fav lyrics from you

  57. W.... V....

    No more autotune bro...

  58. 7.... ....

    I honestly love the autotune.
    Watsky is one of my favorite artists because the dude CAN rap like a motherfucker, but that's not the only genre he focuses on. He can sing, too, and Complaint in general is absolutely fantastic because of the variety in the music.
    It's like why I could listen to Complaint all day but albums like Between Somewhere by Token don't have a lot of replay value to me. Sure, a lot of the songs on Between Somewhere actually have story to them and have meaning, but the repetition of the same genre throughout an entire album is what kills it for me.

  59. H.... ....

    autotune is to much.. But music videos are always on point.

  60. M.... J....

    That bad auto tune though let me be fair though the song lyrics good the auto tune bad .... I get why he used it but was way to much ... I like music a lot I don’t cringe when I listen to music genneraly ever the auto tune in this cringed me hard

  61. T.... ....

    really liked this music video!

  62. a.... m....

    No auto tune pls you don't need it too good for it

  63. S.... -....

    I hope you make a music video to Whitecaps. That's my fave 💚 you did so good on this album

  64. F.... ....

    Man I'm not a fan of auto tune but this was really touching. I dug this song.

  65. P.... ....

    The lyrics and the harmony are phenomenal but I wish you haven't done this much autotune

  66. m.... ....

    The song is so damn beautiful & so is the video 😭💖

  67. B.... R....

    I love this album, although I must admit I'm not a fan of the autotune, especially in this song. I think your straight singing would fit this song better. Other than that, I still love the song

  68. M.... P....

    Крутой клип! Русские, сколько нас?

  69. L.... ....

    WATSKY!
    You have fix on Moon or something? Or i'm wrong?

  70. o.... ....

    Good shit <3

  71. L.... B....

    Disliked, but not to be a hater so here's why: I like the song, but i don't like it's rendition. I get that you were experimenting with autotune, and normally i would be able to look past it, but it would nevertheless be a detrementing factor. Here, it just goes a bit too far for me, the discordant elements ruin my enjoyment, which sucks because the song has some fantastic lyrics and an otherwise solid progression. Still love what you are doing in general, pushing the limits of your artistic vision, this one is just not for me. But if you didn't try stuff like this, you wouldn't end up making stuff like Mean Ass Drunk, so i appreciate this song's existance, even if i don't like it in-and-of-itself.

  72. F.... ....

    Not a fan of the autotune

  73. L.... W....

    Very good

  74. F.... ....

    i farted

  75. D.... M....

    The autotune really does not fit your style :/

  76. R.... M....

    this has a lot of feelings.

  77. f.... ....

    Brilliant 👌

  78. F.... s....

    ❤️💕❤️💕💖

  79. C.... V....

    Make sure to support Watsky! he had to hire the moon to make this video

  80. K.... R....

    Perfect! This is the perfect video! This song quickly became my favorite on the album and now this. Thank you, Watsky!

  81. L.... ....

    while this was my least favorite song on the album, I can't hate anyone for trying something new. It's still interesting and fun, and I think the video makes me like the song better.

  82. B.... ....

    Go back to rap screw this

  83. h.... ....

    I love George Watsky but I still cannot stand hearing autotune in anything I listen to. It drives me insane.

  84. S.... ....

    oh hi im that guy built so fly

  85. a.... ....

    Probably my favorite video of yours. Very awesome. Just as book at film making as you are music.

  86. S.... ....

    What's with the dislikes tho? It's like noticeably high

    S.... ....

    Siren a lot of people were complaining about the autotune on the album, saying it wasn’t authentic as Watsky’s work normally is so I’d guess it’s that.

    S.... ....

    People hear autotune and automatically assume he's gone mainstream mumble rap

  87. V.... V....

    I listen to this song with my head down on the desk during lunch break and this video is EXACTLY what i imagine i fuckin love it im also crying so thanks a lot

  88. A.... B....

    This is what you call a good usage of autotune

  89. D.... ....

    I LOVE the Autotune. I don't know why, but it is great.

  90. n.... g....

    I just wish it was longer.

  91. Y.... ....

    Watsky u dont need auto tune bro u sound better with out it.

  92. A.... C....

    It never fails!!! I always get so excited for your new songs and videos. You are such a talented artist. My favorite at that. I love that as I go through a new season in my life you offer something so realistic and relevant. :) love Ya man. Keep up the phenomenal work.

  93. J.... R....

    Your music is so amazing! 💕 Great job, as always

  94. J.... ....

    Thanks cencorshipban in other countries tho mate

  95. J.... ....

    Gosh darn head duck I tell yew

  96. C.... S....

    Honestly, this video hits me deep.

  97. S.... ....

    Where is the amazing fast flow, that Watsky is famous for?

    S.... ....

    SlaMal he normally has one song on every album that’s fast, which he also does on this album.

    S.... ....

    He wants variety on each song so everyone can get some of what they want

  98. K.... T....

    somewhere finding old watsky the real rapper