Overall about difficult moments of disappointment and vulnerability. Having hope and longing, while remaining optimistic for the future. Encourages the belief that with each new morning there is a chance for things to improve.
The chorus offers a glimmer of optimism and a chance at a resolution and redemption in the future.
Captures the rollercoaster of emotions of feeling lost while loving someone who is not there for you, feeling let down and abandoned while waiting for a lover. Lost with no direction, "Now I'm up in the air with the rain in my hair, Nowhere to go, I can go anywhere"
The bridge shows signs of longing and a plea for companionship. The Lyrics express a desire for authentic connection and the importance of Loving someone just as they are. "Just in passing, I'm not asking. That you be anyone but you”
La-la-la-la-la-la-la-la
Oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh
Oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh
Can you hear me now?
This is not the girl you used to know
Talking to you now
I don't think you want me to explode
It's the countdown
It took you too long to find out
What you want, right now
I'm too gone to stay around
Switching up my style
Now our faces never stick around
A.K.A, never hold you down
A.K.A, can't figure it out
A.K.A, you don't know me now
Oh you don't know me now
A.K.A
A.K.A
Oh oh oh, you don't know me now, A.K.A
You don't know me now
Oh, you don't know me now
They all seem to watch you when you go
I was here, oh, I was here before
What goes around, comes back around for sure
So I'mma let you, I'mma let you know oh oh
It took you too long to find out
What you want, right now
I'm too gone to stay around
Switching up my style
Now our faces never stick around
A.K.A, never hold you down
A.K.A, can't figure it out
A.K.A, you don't know me now
Oh you don't know me now
A.K.A
A.K.A
Oh oh oh, you don't know me now, A.K.A
You don't know me now
Oh, you don't know me now
Ay, what it is now shawty (what it is)
You was fuckin' with a sucker
But you dealin' with a real now shawty (for real)
Anybody got a problem they can feel my forty
Tell me how you feel now shawty (how you feel)
God damn, is you as good as you look
Standing in the hood but you look like you came off the page of a book
Pretty face and your ass like a hook
In the rain, like a crab when I look
Whew, you are such a distraction
You act like you want it I give you the business
Tear that shit up, girl, as God as my witness
Would you bend if you don't know me?
Honey I'm considered your OG
Bitch don't like life 'cause you don't want me
Think you could do better? Well we sure gon' see
Hold up, back in 04 drive, you don't know me
The moral of the story, you don't know me
Got there right now, I'm the man right now
Anybody get it, we can get it in right now
Listen one thing still in the pen right now
Killer gun, take your cell, I'd be dead by now
But stare right now, get bread like wow
When the drop hit, now get head like ow
We let that AK go by J. Lo
You don't know me now
Oh you don't know me now
It took you too long to find out
What you want, right now
I'm too gone to stay around
Switching up my style
Now our faces never stick around
A.K.A, never hold you down
A.K.A, can't figure it out
A.K.A, you don't know me now
Oh you don't know me now
(Tell 'em, tell 'em) A.K.A
(Tell 'em, tell 'em, tell 'em) A.K.A
Oh, you don't know me now, A.K.A
You don't know me now
Oh, you don't know me now
Oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh
Oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh
Can you hear me now?
This is not the girl you used to know
Talking to you now
I don't think you want me to explode
It's the countdown
It took you too long to find out
What you want, right now
I'm too gone to stay around
Switching up my style
Now our faces never stick around
A.K.A, never hold you down
A.K.A, can't figure it out
A.K.A, you don't know me now
Oh you don't know me now
A.K.A
A.K.A
Oh oh oh, you don't know me now, A.K.A
You don't know me now
Oh, you don't know me now
They all seem to watch you when you go
I was here, oh, I was here before
What goes around, comes back around for sure
So I'mma let you, I'mma let you know oh oh
It took you too long to find out
What you want, right now
I'm too gone to stay around
Switching up my style
Now our faces never stick around
A.K.A, never hold you down
A.K.A, can't figure it out
A.K.A, you don't know me now
Oh you don't know me now
A.K.A
A.K.A
Oh oh oh, you don't know me now, A.K.A
You don't know me now
Oh, you don't know me now
Ay, what it is now shawty (what it is)
You was fuckin' with a sucker
But you dealin' with a real now shawty (for real)
Anybody got a problem they can feel my forty
Tell me how you feel now shawty (how you feel)
God damn, is you as good as you look
Standing in the hood but you look like you came off the page of a book
Pretty face and your ass like a hook
In the rain, like a crab when I look
Whew, you are such a distraction
You act like you want it I give you the business
Tear that shit up, girl, as God as my witness
Would you bend if you don't know me?
Honey I'm considered your OG
Bitch don't like life 'cause you don't want me
Think you could do better? Well we sure gon' see
Hold up, back in 04 drive, you don't know me
The moral of the story, you don't know me
Got there right now, I'm the man right now
Anybody get it, we can get it in right now
Listen one thing still in the pen right now
Killer gun, take your cell, I'd be dead by now
But stare right now, get bread like wow
When the drop hit, now get head like ow
We let that AK go by J. Lo
You don't know me now
Oh you don't know me now
It took you too long to find out
What you want, right now
I'm too gone to stay around
Switching up my style
Now our faces never stick around
A.K.A, never hold you down
A.K.A, can't figure it out
A.K.A, you don't know me now
Oh you don't know me now
(Tell 'em, tell 'em) A.K.A
(Tell 'em, tell 'em, tell 'em) A.K.A
Oh, you don't know me now, A.K.A
You don't know me now
Oh, you don't know me now
Lyrics submitted by Mellow_Harsher
A.K.A. Lyrics as written by Clifford Harris Jennifer Lopez
Lyrics © BMG Rights Management, Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, Missing Link Music
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