Today, his layered sound utilizes all areas of music including up-tempo drums, pop and trap beats, and his effortlessly flowing falsettos. His debut single, “Dirty AF1s,” made an instant splash hitting Spotify’s New Music Friday playlist and garnered early recognition from Apple Music who premiere the track as their “Bop of the Week.” Following the single, Alexander 23 pushed out a steady stream of music including “When I Die,” which led Lyrical Lemonade to recognize his songwriting, narrative, and overall sound, calling it “one of the best songs [they have] heard in recent memory,” and “Mars,” which was added to Spotify’s “Chill Hits” (4.7m followers ) playlist. Additionally, his sound caught the attention of singer-songwriter, Alec Benjamin, who tapped the newcomer for his sold-out North American “Outrunning Karma Tour.” The tour showcased Alexander’s vibrant talents, knack for DIY and shy-yet-curious character.
See You Later
Alexander 23 Lyrics
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But I can't afford to miss this flight
I paid money I don't have
Just to see your face for the night
I don't want to leave
But to stay would only make it worse
Sometimes the only way to get over hurt is to hurt
I could barely zip it
Pack my bags but the best I have oh no
Couldn't fit you in it
It's not goodbye
But it don't feel like see you later
When were both crying
In this broke down elevator
I know you're scared 'cause I'm scared too
You're only mine
If you're mine to lose
It's not goodbye
'Cause that would break her
So I say see you later
See you later
Why am I walking away
From the person that I could call home
Yea my heart says stay
My leg's are walking on their own
Pack my bags yeah, I pack my bags so full
I could barely zip it
Pack my bags but the best I have oh no
Couldn't fit you in it
It's not goodbye
But it don't feel like see you later
When were both crying
In this broke down elevator
I know you're scared 'cause I'm scared too
You're only mine
If you're mine to lose
It's not goodbye
'Cause that would break her
So I say see you later
See you later
See you later
See you later
See you later
The lyrics to Alexander 23's song "See You Later" depict the internal struggle of wanting to stay with someone but knowing that leaving is the best option to heal from the pain of a past hurt. The singer acknowledges that they don't want to go, but they can't afford to miss their flight, emphasizing the sacrifice they are making to see their loved one for one more night. The lyrics also touch on the idea that sometimes hurting is necessary to get over hurt, suggesting that leaving is a way of moving on and finding closure.
The metaphor of packing bags is used throughout the song to symbolize leaving and letting go. The singer packs their bags full, almost struggling to close them, but realizes that even with everything they have, they couldn't fit the person they love inside. This represents the idea that sometimes certain relationships or connections cannot be carried or contained, no matter how much we want them to be.
The chorus of the song highlights the emotional complexity of the situation. While it's not a final goodbye, it doesn't feel like a simple "see you later" either. Both the singer and their loved one are crying in a broken down elevator, emphasizing the emotional turmoil they are going through. The singer acknowledges their fear and the fear of the loved one, emphasizing the vulnerability and uncertainty inherent in their relationship. The last section of the lyrics repeats the phrase "see you later," reinforcing the themes of longing and bittersweet moments of departure.
Line by Line Meaning
I don't want to go
I am reluctant to leave
But I can't afford to miss this flight
Missing this flight would have serious consequences
I paid money I don't have
I used funds that I don't possess
Just to see your face for the night
Only to have a glimpse of your presence for a brief moment
I don't want to leave
I have a desire to stay
But to stay would only make it worse
Remaining would exacerbate the situation
Sometimes the only way to get over hurt is to hurt
Occasionally, causing pain is the sole method to overcome emotional distress
Pack my bags yeah, I pack my bags so full
Assemble my belongings, filling my luggage to maximum capacity
I could barely zip it
It is difficult to close the zipper due to the amount of items
Pack my bags but the best I have oh no
Despite my efforts, the most important thing cannot fit in
Couldn't fit you in it
There is no space for you in my luggage
It's not goodbye
This is not a permanent farewell
But it don't feel like see you later
Despite the words, it does not give the same sense of temporary separation
When were both crying
While we both shed tears
In this broke down elevator
Within this malfunctioning elevator
I know you're scared 'cause I'm scared too
I acknowledge your fear as I also experience the same emotions
You're only mine
I possess you exclusively
If you're mine to lose
If I have the possibility of losing you
Cause that would break her
Because it would cause immense emotional pain to someone else
So I say see you later
Hence, I choose to bid you farewell temporarily
Why am I walking away
Why am I deliberately moving in the opposite direction
From the person that I could call home
From the individual that could be considered my safe haven
Yea my heart says stay
Indeed, my heart urges me to remain
My leg's are walking on their own
Yet my legs are operating independently, taking me away
See you later
The parting phrase to signify a temporary farewell
Lyrics © Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, Warner Chappell Music, Inc.
Written by: Alexander Glantz, Michael Pollack
Lyrics Licensed & Provided by LyricFind
just jacob11
My love story...
There was this girl that I saw and was dumb struck. See her had changed my life forever. I was graduating from this new school I had only attended a year at and my high school was fading the new step into the adult world was soon to come. I then saw this beautiful girl, when I saw her... I felt shaken to my core, but with this energy that was coursing out of my chest. It wasn't even like the normal flushing of the cheaks, or the heart beat rising. I literally felt like I was struck by lightening. I felt my skin tingle as if she was electricity and was charging my skin with raw energy and sudden warmth. I was scared of whatever came over me. I was scared of her...
I was going to grad night and I than thought that I wasn't going to see her again and must forget about it. I had more things to worrying about. But at the end of gradnight and we lined back up to get on the buses, I looked over at another bus... and there she was. She was talking with her friends. As shewas getting on the bus she looked up and looked at me... we both looking at eachother for just a few seconds, the feeling returning just as sudden as when I first saw her, and than she disappeared. Getting on the bus and me as well to go back home. One thing was certain, we were both at gradnight, which meant we were both seniors and were going to graduate together... I didn't know if I going to see her again. I wasn't sure if I wanted considering how insecure I intensely felt. Or if she felt the same about me. I tried to forget about it, though was in the back of my mind. My soul was lit up like it has never before. And never from anyone else 3 years since.
I was at graduation and was preparing in the rehearsal, and sure enough... there she was. My core feeling like a battery, my finger tips static and numb, and my focus almost disoriented. But I could control myself, I knew I could stay strong resist this desire that awakening from seeing her across the auditorium. She was blonde with a red streak in her bangs. A smile worth a million dollars, she could a roll for Margot Robbie's money. I'm talkin she was and is that beautiful. Even more so.
Before graduation, there was the area where we us grads had to wait before going out in the auditorium. But as a polynesian tradition, my family put flower lays, stacks of them for me to wear, stacked so high I could barely see. But I knew I could see how some friends didn't have family there to see them or they have special awarded sashes to wear. So I started handing out my lays. And I saw her across the room, and she was staring at me seeing me with a tower of lays and giving them away. I walked over to her and have her one and said "Thought you might one :)" she with a big smile,"Aw, Thankyou so much :)! That's really kind of you" I said just simply said no prob, not giving away that there was something true... I was falling in love. That year in May 2016.
I was than getting out of a huge toxic relationship as well as a high school romance, which frankly, don't usually last as drama and her playing me, I had to let those things go. I might never see this blonde girl again after graduation. But I noticed we had a mutual friend and I asked our mutual friend who she was. I will never forget her name.
I was able to look her up on Instagram. That was her. The woman that I casted a spell on me. A woman that gave me a feeling unlike anything. I knew she was someone to be special. Even to now I don't know why or what was to be particularly special.
But I reached out to her and wanted to get to know her, she was like a beam of light through a grey but beautiful soothing raining day.
I life wasn't going the best after graduating, had a very religious parenting and restricted to do a lot and had broken up with my high school girlfriend that was struggling to get over. But this Girl kept residing in the back of my mind. Coming out of a serious relationship, I felt it wasn't right to my family and to my exes family if I started pursuing a new girl, so I new I need to control my impulses and that this falling in love thing is false. I slowly felt I wasn't deserving of it. The slow and steady poison of depression soon was being gulped in... I suddenly got a message. I had put something up on socail media of how I felt.. and it was from Her... she was wondering what was wrong... I told her that my life was slowly feeling like.I wasn't going anywhere and was losing. She then and henceforth changed my life. She said, "You could try to join the Navy with me :)" I was considering the military already, I had nothing else going for me. So I gave it shot. Me and her started seeing eachother more often, I would be giving her a ride to appoints, and me and her would go to the gym and train. I would take her out after and we would have the most fun.
One night, there was a party being thrown, and I was going. I had never drank before in my life... -.- as I showed I needed to get experience if I was to be a sailor in the Navy. She was there and we were having good time, I didn't know the differences of the drinks, and turned out I drank 3/4 glass tall bottle of straight Vodka. I soon became a hilarious sad and in love drunk. My memory and everything fazing... but one thing I remember, is... she kissed me❤.
What I then did, was something that ruined it. Being a crying and in Love Drunk
I than asked her why she did that. She than said she was sorry. Soon later a gay friend of ours passed out and i started trying to make sure he was ok with checking his pulse and chest compressions with CPR, being full drunk I was. As well as yelling how much in love I was with her. And how sad that as she was joining the navy, me and her were to never see eachother for years. And we'd never get married and have our "four kids" 😂. Me and her will continue to laugh about that memory. When it came down to her last days before shipping off to bootcamp, not knowing that was going to be the last time I'd get to see her for 3 years. I just told her.. I was going to miss her... she meant so much to me. She was giving me a second chance at life to persue my own career in the Navy. Crazy part is while she was in boot camp and a week before I was shipping out, she was returning early from bootcamp... sadly she had suffered a break down and couldn't go through to complete the training... she had lost her chance of what she thought was her future.
I never got the chance to see her, but I remember telling her, though what she had faced and was then now facing, she was back home and safe. I was now pretty scared to go through with it. But I did it. I shipped out and those 2 months, I thought nothingelse but her. The girl that had changed my life.
Over these years we would have waves of talking to eachother as old friends. I'd than have to hear how she had gotten into a relationship and moved out to him... but I just want her to be happy
I would later be still a very close friend and one to give advice on things. There was one time that she wasn't sure if she cared about her boyfriend... she wanted me... but I knew it would be a dishonorable thing to pull her away... I didn't have my own place to stay and wouldn't be able to take care of her.
I would later come to see what's to come. She eventually marries this man she was dating... that was one... sad time in my life. She was moving on... I ought to too. She was in Texas over 1000 miles away from me... but I knew she was to be happy and I had no right to any of that.
Time passed and couple of years when by and I got text from her, me now living on a ship and having it rough. But she then told me she getting divorced. The man she married became a monster to her. Beating her, and threatening to kill her and her going through multiple miscarriages...
I gave her as much love and comfort as i could muster with the distance between her and me. Her being the one to light up my soul...
Me and her than comfessed to eachother that we loved eachother ever since we've first met. May 18th 2016. Seeing the beautiful girl climbing into the bus after gradnight❤... how much we've meant to eachother over these 3 years of having never seen eachother...
But issues of distance and my inconvenience being in the military and of not being able to go see her...
She had than a couple months later of being alone and depressed she opened herself up again, and got a new boyfriend.
Me being confused and sad why my life was to be this was... I than did something I don't think I can undo...
I deleted her... feeling like I was causing her pain. I let her go. If fate wields that me and Her are to see eachother one day in life, than let it be. I forever wish her happiness. A life of being whole. I love her. And every thing I do I have her on my mind as the love of my life. Whether I am to sail and walk this earth and having seen many things, heard many things and meeting so many people and helping and serving, with the purpose of putting forth good, at the very from me. I have her on the back of my mind... I am alone and on my own, with no family, or people that really care about me near.. she is the one I do everything for. My one and only.
gracie
gosh why doesn’t this have more views it’s so good
dimitriy pastukh
IKR
Alexander 23
<23
Orchid
to my ex girlfriend Kara, we had to break up because distance and college was getting very difficult. every single part of me is in love with this girl. we broke up 4 months ago and i still cant stop thinking about her. i dont know what the future holds for us but i hope and pray that we meet eachother again one day.
I miss you Kara and i am truly in love with you. i hope i get to see you again one day
I love you Kara
Alyssa Baldwin
This song makes me want to lay in a flower field at sunset and cry while I hold my own hand with a vintage suitcase at my feet as I use a beat up jean jacket as a blanket.
Alyssa Baldwin
@Dylan Boes aren't we all? 🙃
just jacob11
My love story...
There was this girl that I saw and was dumb struck. See her had changed my life forever. I was graduating from this new school I had only attended a year at and my high school was fading the new step into the adult world was soon to come. I then saw this beautiful girl, when I saw her... I felt shaken to my core, but with this energy that was coursing out of my chest. It wasn't even like the normal flushing of the cheaks, or the heart beat rising. I literally felt like I was struck by lightening. I felt my skin tingle as if she was electricity and was charging my skin with raw energy and sudden warmth. I was scared of whatever came over me. I was scared of her...
I was going to grad night and I than thought that I wasn't going to see her again and must forget about it. I had more things to worrying about. But at the end of gradnight and we lined back up to get on the buses, I looked over at another bus... and there she was. She was talking with her friends. As shewas getting on the bus she looked up and looked at me... we both looking at eachother for just a few seconds, the feeling returning just as sudden as when I first saw her, and than she disappeared. Getting on the bus and me as well to go back home. One thing was certain, we were both at gradnight, which meant we were both seniors and were going to graduate together... I didn't know if I going to see her again. I wasn't sure if I wanted considering how insecure I intensely felt. Or if she felt the same about me. I tried to forget about it, though was in the back of my mind. My soul was lit up like it has never before. And never from anyone else 3 years since.
I was at graduation and was preparing in the rehearsal, and sure enough... there she was. My core feeling like a battery, my finger tips static and numb, and my focus almost disoriented. But I could control myself, I knew I could stay strong resist this desire that awakening from seeing her across the auditorium. She was blonde with a red streak in her bangs. A smile worth a million dollars, she could a roll for Margot Robbie's money. I'm talkin she was and is that beautiful. Even more so.
Before graduation, there was the area where we us grads had to wait before going out in the auditorium. But as a polynesian tradition, my family put flower lays, stacks of them for me to wear, stacked so high I could barely see. But I knew I could see how some friends didn't have family there to see them or they have special awarded sashes to wear. So I started handing out my lays. And I saw her across the room, and she was staring at me seeing me with a tower of lays and giving them away. I walked over to her and have her one and said "Thought you might one :)" she with a big smile,"Aw, Thankyou so much :)! That's really kind of you" I said just simply said no prob, not giving away that there was something true... I was falling in love. That year in May 2016.
I was than getting out of a huge toxic relationship as well as a high school romance, which frankly, don't usually last as drama and her playing me, I had to let those things go. I might never see this blonde girl again after graduation. But I noticed we had a mutual friend and I asked our mutual friend who she was. I will never forget her name.
I was able to look her up on Instagram. That was her. The woman that I casted a spell on me. A woman that gave me a feeling unlike anything. I knew she was someone to be special. Even to now I don't know why or what was to be particularly special.
But I reached out to her and wanted to get to know her, she was like a beam of light through a grey but beautiful soothing raining day.
I life wasn't going the best after graduating, had a very religious parenting and restricted to do a lot and had broken up with my high school girlfriend that was struggling to get over. But this Girl kept residing in the back of my mind. Coming out of a serious relationship, I felt it wasn't right to my family and to my exes family if I started pursuing a new girl, so I new I need to control my impulses and that this falling in love thing is false. I slowly felt I wasn't deserving of it. The slow and steady poison of depression soon was being gulped in... I suddenly got a message. I had put something up on socail media of how I felt.. and it was from Her... she was wondering what was wrong... I told her that my life was slowly feeling like.I wasn't going anywhere and was losing. She then and henceforth changed my life. She said, "You could try to join the Navy with me :)" I was considering the military already, I had nothing else going for me. So I gave it shot. Me and her started seeing eachother more often, I would be giving her a ride to appoints, and me and her would go to the gym and train. I would take her out after and we would have the most fun.
One night, there was a party being thrown, and I was going. I had never drank before in my life... -.- as I showed I needed to get experience if I was to be a sailor in the Navy. She was there and we were having good time, I didn't know the differences of the drinks, and turned out I drank 3/4 glass tall bottle of straight Vodka. I soon became a hilarious sad and in love drunk. My memory and everything fazing... but one thing I remember, is... she kissed me❤.
What I then did, was something that ruined it. Being a crying and in Love Drunk
I than asked her why she did that. She than said she was sorry. Soon later a gay friend of ours passed out and i started trying to make sure he was ok with checking his pulse and chest compressions with CPR, being full drunk I was. As well as yelling how much in love I was with her. And how sad that as she was joining the navy, me and her were to never see eachother for years. And we'd never get married and have our "four kids" 😂. Me and her will continue to laugh about that memory. When it came down to her last days before shipping off to bootcamp, not knowing that was going to be the last time I'd get to see her for 3 years. I just told her.. I was going to miss her... she meant so much to me. She was giving me a second chance at life to persue my own career in the Navy. Crazy part is while she was in boot camp and a week before I was shipping out, she was returning early from bootcamp... sadly she had suffered a break down and couldn't go through to complete the training... she had lost her chance of what she thought was her future.
I never got the chance to see her, but I remember telling her, though what she had faced and was then now facing, she was back home and safe. I was now pretty scared to go through with it. But I did it. I shipped out and those 2 months, I thought nothingelse but her. The girl that had changed my life.
Over these years we would have waves of talking to eachother as old friends. I'd than have to hear how she had gotten into a relationship and moved out to him... but I just want her to be happy
I would later be still a very close friend and one to give advice on things. There was one time that she wasn't sure if she cared about her boyfriend... she wanted me... but I knew it would be a dishonorable thing to pull her away... I didn't have my own place to stay and wouldn't be able to take care of her.
I would later come to see what's to come. She eventually marries this man she was dating... that was one... sad time in my life. She was moving on... I ought to too. She was in Texas over 1000 miles away from me... but I knew she was to be happy and I had no right to any of that.
Time passed and couple of years when by and I got text from her, me now living on a ship and having it rough. But she then told me she getting divorced. The man she married became a monster to her. Beating her, and threatening to kill her and her going through multiple miscarriages...
I gave her as much love and comfort as i could muster with the distance between her and me. Her being the one to light up my soul...
Me and her than comfessed to eachother that we loved eachother ever since we've first met. May 18th 2016. Seeing the beautiful girl climbing into the bus after gradnight❤... how much we've meant to eachother over these 3 years of having never seen eachother...
But issues of distance and my inconvenience being in the military and of not being able to go see her...
She had than a couple months later of being alone and depressed she opened herself up again, and got a new boyfriend.
Me being confused and sad why my life was to be this was... I than did something I don't think I can undo...
I deleted her... feeling like I was causing her pain. I let her go. If fate wields that me and Her are to see eachother one day in life, than let it be. I forever wish her happiness. A life of being whole. I love her. And every thing I do I have her on my mind as the love of my life. Whether I am to sail and walk this earth and having seen many things, heard many things and meeting so many people and helping and serving, with the purpose of putting forth good, at the very from me. I have her on the back of my mind... I am alone and on my own, with no family, or people that really care about me near.. she is the one I do everything for. My one and only.
Sergio Florez
So I’m currently a senior and not gonna lie i think I’m going through something similar, this girl just rocks my world and I’ve only met her this year
Полина Гумерова
This was amazing writing! You should totally start working on your own book, bc this text felt like it!!
Luanna Gonzales
Dude please talk to her!!! find her !!!