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Riff: Ne-Yo – “Why”

Jan 27, 2015

What the hell was I thinkin’? Man I wish I was drinkin’/So I could blame it on the liquor, why did I paint the picture?/Why did I think it was something that she wouldn’t even consider?/Now I’m avoidin’ eye contact as if I owe her money/Tryna laugh it off, clearly she don’t think it’s funny

from Why lyrics by Ne-Yo

Ne-Yo being tongue in cheek, but falling flat on his face. He tries to get up, but it’s hard to take him seriously when his fedora is crushed and all matted to the side. That’s the album in a nutshell, a man scrambling for sex appeal with his fly down. Nothing to look at here but boring satire.

Riff by Jeff Min

Jeff Min is a Chicago-based writer at SONGLYRICS. His work has appeared in the Chicago Sun-Times, Hi-Fructose, Wax Poetics, SLAM, and HOOP.

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