Ivy

Ivy is the second track on Frank Ocean’s sophomore album Blonde. This track explores growing up and thinking about past mistakes. Frank performed a rough demo version of “Ivy” at the BMW Welt in Munich, the first stop of his European tour ‘California Live’, in June 2013. Frank discusses his first love in this song.

[Chorus] I thought that I was dreamin' when you said you love me The start of nothin', I had no chance to prepare I couldn't see you comin' The start of nothin', ooh, I could hate you now It's quite alright to hate me now When we both know that deep down The feeling still deep down is good [Verse 1] If I could see through walls, I could see you're faking If you could see my thoughts, you would see our faces Safe in my rental like an armored truck back then We didn't give a fuck back then I ain't a kid no more, we'll never be those kids again We'd drive to Syd's, had the X6 back then, back then No matter what I did, my waves wouldn't dip back then Everything sucked back then, we were friends [Chorus] I thought that I was dreamin' when you said you love me The start of nothin', I had no chance to prepare I couldn't see you comin' The start of nothin', ooh, I could hate you now It's quite alright to hate me now But we both know that deep down The feeling still deep down is good [Verse 2] In the halls of your hotel Arm around my shoulder so I could tell How much I meant to you, meant it sincere back then We had time to kill back then You ain't a kid no more, we'll never be those kids again It's not the same, ivory's illegal, don't you remember? [Bridge] I broke your heart last week You'll probably feel better by the weekend Still remember, had you going crazy Screamin' my name, the feeling deep down is good [Chorus] I thought that I was dreamin' when you said you love me The start of nothin', had no chance to prepare Couldn't see you comin' And we started from nothin', ooh, I could hate you now It's alright to hate me now We both know that deep down The feeling still deep down is good [Outro] All the things I didn't mean to say, I didn't mean to do There were things you didn't need to say Did you mean to? Mean to I've been dreamin' of you, dreamin' of you I've been dreamin' of you, dreamin' of you I've been dreamin', dreaming