I think much like another song “Anti-Matter” (that's also on the same album as this song), this one is also is inspired by a horrifying van crash the band experienced on Nov 3, 2022. This, much like the other track, sounds like it's an extension what they shared while huddled in the wreckage, as they helped frontman Garrett Russell stem the bleeding from his head wound while he was under the temporary effects of a concussion. The track speaks of where the mind goes at the most desperate & desolate of times, when it just about slips away to all but disconnect itself, and the aftermath.
Now boy, it's about that time again
For all the gentlemen
Pick your game up, track your lady type
Sign your name up, hustle who you like
Last time we made a ten
So that's right where we begin
Follow me up, to the city lights
I'm gonna shake a little tonight
Oh, are you seein' how I love to dance
Are you working up a master plan
Here I am
And I'm waitin' on a fine romance, hmm
If you got your eyes on me
Keep it rollin' heavily, yeah
If you want me to stay
[Chorus]
You better spin that record one more time
(Ah, ah yeah, one time, oh)
Baby give me all them old school rhymes
(Ooh-oh-ooh-oh)
Wanna feel vibrations up my spine
(Ah, ah yeah, my spine)
You better work that hustle how I like
(Ooh-oh-ooh-oh)
Yeah, I got the feelin' back
I know just what to do with that
Shola (?) dropping, I throw you a glass
Check you know him with your head
And with the palm of your hands, baby
The floor's starting to react
Watch opposites attract
The spots heavin', expect beatin'
I'm gonna shake a little, woah
Oh, are you seein' how I love to dance
Are you working up a master plan
Here I am
And I'm waitin' on a fine romance, hmm
If you got your eyes on me
Keep it rollin' heavily, yeah
If you want me to stay
[Chorus]
It's Sway and Jamelia
You better get familiar
Gonna keep on hustlin'
Tryna make a million
When Sway steps in the place, there's no replacement
You can either move to the base, or move to the basement
DJ wanna wheel it out
Spin it back and speed it out
Turn it up in your car
But if you're on a bike then pop a wheelie
What's gwannin', darling
Maybe one day we can meet up
You can help me put my feet up
Then we can mess the sheets up
Listen, the lion's back and about to claim the lion's share
And anybody denying that will end up lying there
See I'm a pioneer
They didn't see me
I make the party jump
Even if it is the B.E.D
[Chorus:Repeat x2]
Hey yeah, yeah
For all the gentlemen
Pick your game up, track your lady type
Sign your name up, hustle who you like
Last time we made a ten
So that's right where we begin
Follow me up, to the city lights
I'm gonna shake a little tonight
Oh, are you seein' how I love to dance
Are you working up a master plan
Here I am
And I'm waitin' on a fine romance, hmm
If you got your eyes on me
Keep it rollin' heavily, yeah
If you want me to stay
[Chorus]
You better spin that record one more time
(Ah, ah yeah, one time, oh)
Baby give me all them old school rhymes
(Ooh-oh-ooh-oh)
Wanna feel vibrations up my spine
(Ah, ah yeah, my spine)
You better work that hustle how I like
(Ooh-oh-ooh-oh)
Yeah, I got the feelin' back
I know just what to do with that
Shola (?) dropping, I throw you a glass
Check you know him with your head
And with the palm of your hands, baby
The floor's starting to react
Watch opposites attract
The spots heavin', expect beatin'
I'm gonna shake a little, woah
Oh, are you seein' how I love to dance
Are you working up a master plan
Here I am
And I'm waitin' on a fine romance, hmm
If you got your eyes on me
Keep it rollin' heavily, yeah
If you want me to stay
[Chorus]
It's Sway and Jamelia
You better get familiar
Gonna keep on hustlin'
Tryna make a million
When Sway steps in the place, there's no replacement
You can either move to the base, or move to the basement
DJ wanna wheel it out
Spin it back and speed it out
Turn it up in your car
But if you're on a bike then pop a wheelie
What's gwannin', darling
Maybe one day we can meet up
You can help me put my feet up
Then we can mess the sheets up
Listen, the lion's back and about to claim the lion's share
And anybody denying that will end up lying there
See I'm a pioneer
They didn't see me
I make the party jump
Even if it is the B.E.D
[Chorus:Repeat x2]
Hey yeah, yeah
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Hustle Lyrics as written by Xavier Dotson Radric Delantic Davis
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