Florida
Frank Ocean Lyrics


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Are you with me?
Are you with me?
Are you with me?




Overall Meaning

The repetition of the question "Are you with me?" in Frank Ocean's song Florida can be interpreted in a few different ways. Firstly, it can be seen as a plea for emotional support or understanding. The song reflects on feelings of isolation and disconnection, with the singer struggling to find a sense of belonging or connection with others. The repeated questioning of whether someone is "with" the singer might be a way for them to seek reassurance or validation that they are not alone in their experiences.


On the other hand, the repetition of this question could also highlight a sense of frustration or impatience. The singer might be seeking to understand why they feel the way they do, or looking for answers about why they are struggling to connect with others. The repeated questioning could represent their determination to find these answers, and a refusal to give up until they do.


Overall, the lyrics of Florida are introspective and melancholic, drawing on themes of disconnection and attempting to find meaning in life.


Line by Line Meaning

Are you with me?
Do you understand my perspective or share my current emotional state?


Are you with me?
Do you agree with my actions or decisions?


Are you with me?
Do you feel the same way that I do about this situation?




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Written by: CHRISTOPHER BREAUX

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Device Control — 00:28

At Your Best (You Are Love) (feat. James Blake, Jonny Greenwood, and the London Contemporary Orchestra) — 00:51

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Mine (feat. Arca) — 7:37

U-N-I-T-Y — 8:07

Ambience 001: In A Certain Way — 11:01

Commes Des Garcons — 11:12

Ambience 002: Honeybaby — 12:11

Wither (feat. Alex G and Jazime Sullivan) — 12:51

Hublots (feat. Jazmine Sullivan) — 15:25

In Here Somewhere — 15:45

Slide On Me (feat. Alex G) — 18:57

Sideways — 22:07

Florida — 23:59

Deathwish (ASR) — 25:49

Rushes (feat. Alex G and Jazime Sullivan) — 26:33 ish?

Rushes To — 27:09

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Device Control — 38:43



@truefunksoul8638

00:00
00:28 Device Control - Wolfgang Tillmans
00:51 (At Your Best) You Are Love
06:11 Alabama
07:36 Mine
08:07 U-N-I-T-Y
11:01 Ambience 001: A Certain Way
11:12 Comme Des Garçons
12:11 Xenons
12:42 Ambience 002: Honeybaby
12:51 Wither
15:25 Hublots - feat. Jazmine Sullivan
17:13 In Here Somewhere
18:58 Slide On Me
22:05 Sideways
23:59 Florida
25:14 Impietas / Deathwish (ASR)
27:10 Rushes
30:36 Rushes To
32:47 Higgs
36:26 Mitsubishi Sony
38:43 Device Control (reprise) - Wolfgang Tillmans

* correct start times from 2018 audio reissue



@syhrlfllvh8592

at your best you are love:
[Verse 1]
When I feel what I feel
Sometimes it's hard to tell you so
You may not be in the mood to learn
What you think you know
There are times when I find
You wanna keep yourself from me
When I don't have the strength
I'm just a mirror of what I see

[Chorus]
But at your best, you are love
You're a positive motivating force within my life
If you ever feel the need to wonder why
Let me know, let me know
Love

[Verse 2]
When you feel what you feel
It's hard for me to understand
So many things have taken place before this love affair began
But if you feel more like I feel
Confusion can give way to doubt
For there are times when I fall short of what I say
What I say I'm all about, all about

[Chorus]
But at your best, you are love
You're a positive motivating force within my life
Should you ever feel the need to wonder why
Let me know, let me know
Love

[Bridge]
(Wait, waiting)
Let me know
You niggas goin' in
Tell me what it is (Fuck it)
What it is, no need to make believe
Look beyond your world
Try to find, find a place for me

[Chorus]
'Cause when you're at your best, you are love
You're a positive motivating force within my life
Should you ever feel the need to wonder why
Let me know, let me know
Let me know, know
Love

[Outro]
Stay at your best, baby
Let me know, let me know


alabama:
[Verse: Frank Ocean]
Yup, duplex in New Orleans east
I was writin' down everything
Things I would tell nobody
Some things I didn't even tell me
Sleepin' on my back, my body would wake up after me
My barber fresh out the penitentiary
That alcohol was stingin' me
My four cousins stayed with me, stayed with us
One was in the shower
My aunt in law come over to fuss and fight
So she get out in cutoffs and a wifebeater
Barefeet and bra-less, titties swingin'
She was seventeen then
Vaseline and Reebok classics
Weaves and baskets
Take the bully on the greenest grasses
His name was Renny, we was cool after
Matthew had some pairs of Air Maxes
Clarky had them road rashes
Lost your virgin on a air mattress
Texturizer, feelin' unnatural
This what I would do just to show you
That it's special now

[Outro: Frank Ocean, Sampha & Jazmine Sullivan]
What could I do to know you better than I do now?
What can I do to love you more than I do now?
What can I do to know you better?
What can I do to show my love?
What can I do to know you better?
What can I do? What can I do?

mine
[Chorus]
How come the ecstasy always depresses me so?
Chemically, I don’t have no more new places to go
How come the ecstasy always depresses me so?
Chemically, I don’t have no more new places to go
How come the ecstasy always depresses me so?
Chemically, I don’t have no more new places to go
How come the ecstasy always depresses me so?
Chemically, I don’t have no more new places to go

u-n-i-t-y:
[Intro]
U-N-I-T
U-N-I

[Verse 1]
My head fatiguing off the opus
Kept it underground to focus
I feel afterlife, six under oath, don't want no hocus pocus
Niggas tryna go pop, I draw contact, rip my facemask
Nothin' but, nothin' but net, is you Roger or Novak?
You still are no match, you get no rematch
Boy, you missed your moment
Perusing the MoMA, I'm on all my lonely, burst in tears
On his shoulder and it's so cold 'cause he's sculpture
Where's the shaman, Ayahuasca
I had WhatsApp'd him for atonement
I never ever trust the pre-rolled
I never let a random motherfucker shoot the B-roll
I never ask advice from him 'cause what could he know?
Never fuck someone you wouldn't wanna be though
It forever seemed like time's up
When we swerved in the Honda
Now forever seems like no time
I mean, time flies when you have some
Both nuts weigh two pounds, all on your bitch like futons
My crew saved your crew
Like niggas came through with the Groupons
Cookin' with the grease now, truffle fries and Cholula
Are you slowin' down?
Are you holdin' down whoever held you down?
Whoever propped you up, built the structures with you
Swished the buckets with ya, who was fuckin' with ya?
Really brothers when you needed that?
When you see 'em now is it forced black?
Hail Mary on the fourth down
Hands to the sky, yeah

[Verse 2]
Peace to the holy, peace to the people that think they know me
Piece of Moschino, cover your ass, your rectum showing
Peace to the boys that we used to be though
Geto Boy, North Face too cold on these hoes
Peace out to Willie D, Bushwick Billy and 'Face
Piece of steak grillin' in Jesus' name, speakin' his grace
Hands to the sky

[Verse 3]
U-N-I-T-Y, Neptunes and peace signs
Chiraq, Palestine like
Iberville 1995
You'd think that was airstrikes on outside
I put refugees in my villa, play kids the Fu-Gee-La
All this space Atlanta
Place order McMansion and two apple pies
I want the Porsche Bugatti-design
Silicon Valley, new venture is tits up
How do I crop your new bitch out my Vine?
Sick, blue nose pit foamin' white like frappo jacko
El Chapo, de facto
Bell nacho, shell taco, crunch crackle
Green emerald, pink diamonds like Apple Jack bowl

ambience 001:
[Interlude: Crystal LaBeija]
("Feel a certain way—")
"‘Cause you are beautiful and you are young
You deserve to have the best in life"
("Feel a certain way—")



@syhrlfllvh8592

CDG:
[Verse]
He came up in Dallas, had no hazel in his eyes
Had them sailors on his thighs, when he's lit, he show 'em
Kept it faded on the sides, we were seeing someone
We was dating on the side, he was seeing double
I was spinning hula, we were spending so much time
It was getting cooler
All this drillin' got the dick feelin' like a power tool
Finna move a nigga out his momma house now
That's a power move
That's what I gotta do, for real
Would that diamond shine for real?
Shine for real

[Bridge]
Feelings come, feelings go
Feelings come, feelings go
Feelings come, feelings go
Feelings come, feelings go

[Chorus]
Comme des Garçons, Comme des Garçons, Comme des
Comme des Garçons, Comme des Garçons, Comme des
Comme des Garçons, Comme des Garçons, Comme des Garçons
Comme des Garçons, Comme des Garçons, Comme des

[Outro: Rita Zebdi]
Comme Des Garçons

xenons:
[Intro]
Oh, yes
Oh, slide

[Verse]
Xenons with the blue color
If that’s a lease, least it look cool on you
That’s your business and I’m off, when I’m on you
Like holidays, I get off on you

ambience 002:
[Interlude: Gal Costa]
Oh, minha honey baby! Woo!

wither:
[Verse 1: Frank Ocean]
Over where the trees burn down
The place where the fields went down in flames
We could put a hole in the ground
Throw seeds and dance for rain
It takes a mind to worry
A conscience to feel ashamed
But there’s no place to hide out here
These skies are filled with planes

[Verse 2: Frank Ocean]
And both our hands are filthy
Pointing up at the moon
All tonight, I’ll hold you close, close enough to bruise
Hope a garden grows where we dance this afternoon
Hope our children walk by spring, when flowers bloom
Hope they’ll get to see my color
Know that I’ve enjoyed sunshine
Pray they’ll get to see me, me wither (When I was young)
See me wither (When I was young)

[Outro: Frank Ocean & Jazmine Sullivan]
Know that— (Me)
Enjoyed sunshine (When I was young)
Know it happens all— (Me)
Know that I’ve enjoyed sunshine— (Me)
Know it happens all (Me) —all the time (Me)
Know it happens all (Me) —all the time (Me)
When I was young (Me, me)



@syhrlfllvh8592

hublots:
[Verse]
City view turned to the mountain view
Find a place for a quiet one
Suburbia got a yard
All this estate for my mind to run
(Run, run, run)

in here somewhere:
[Verse: Frank Ocean & Jazmine Sullivan]
I know you're in here somewhere
You came with someone
There's something you need someone out there
But try to love the one you're with tonight
Try to love the one you're with
Tonight late at night sometimes it helps
If you don't have to be all by yourself
In a moment life could end
And this could all be over with
I know you're in here somewhere
You came out alone
Something you need
It's been so long
Gotta find the one
Who'll hold you tight

[Outro: Lil Flip]
Feel what I'm sayin'? (Yeah)
Like 10, 10, 12, 11, 10, 6, aight?
Platinum

slide on me:
[Intro]
Gotta rinse off here
I can't see your diamonds
I need a week paradise
I went god mode all year
I can't see so cloudy
Paradiso laundries
I keep the cheats on all year
Sometime in Heaven
You still behind like ancestor
All on your mood board all year
I went god mode about it
You ain't got no muscles, lil' nigga
I ain't in the mood for it all year
I keep the cheats on always
Wrong side of average

[Chorus]
Now when you slide on me, you slide on me
You slide off or peace out, yeah, yeah
That's a free slide on me, first time's on me
Next time won't be, oh, yeah, yeah

[Verse]
For your mentality
You play ball, you run five-on-five least three times a week
Glen Park down the street
Waitin' on you to tire, retire with victory
Play so savagely
Always fighting with them you grew up with
When you lose, you don't cry, but you low-key sad to see
If we cut like some champions, you'll redeem yourself
You'll sleep happily, uh-haha, smiling
I'm still working while you dream pop
I could never let a scene stop smilin' on me
I don't think they get the point, pop
They forgettin' that it's me, akh
Akhi, tell 'em I ain't gone, wallahi
I'm just all day running numbers
How the fuck you think I live?
Too many heads waitin' for my downfall
They're like, "Something's gotta give"
Boys in the building give me updates like they know the weather
If you ain't in the streets, you can't see the sky, I'm out here
I could see the sky and it's paradise
On the regular

[Chorus]
And when you slide on me, you slide on me
You slide on, oh, slide, yeah, yeah
Now when you slide on me, you slide on me
First time on me, oh, yeah, yeah

[Outro]
This is for when you change your mind and slide back this way
This is for that night when setbacks won't let that much fade
Guess you can't blame the ones you choose

sideways:
[Intro]
Woo! (Woo, woo)
Woo!

[Verse]
I was in all them hours in it
10K, tokin' mid strokes
Prime prime time of my life witcha
Puttin' prime numbers up though
On them 777 flights witcha
Take a shower with it, gotta cleanse it
Keep the safety off innit
Now we finna have a minute
Outta wedlock, God forgive it
Then forget it
'Cause only God can forget it
All this hotel living
Might as well pay the mortgage what I'm spending
Said the dick long as a swan neck
Put some real swans in the pond then
Fell asleep in the foreign
After the free show at the Garden
Let the LED roll, deer hunter
Leave the stage, watch it from the audience
Bet we sell the biggest out next week
On me on, my partners

[Outro]
When I'm up they gon' hate
When I'm sideways, yeah, I set me straight
When I'm up they gon' hate
When I'm down they gon' celebrate
Sittin' sideways, too sideways
Nah, it's not too late

florida:
(harmonizing+instrumental



@syhrlfllvh8592

impietas + deathwish:
[Part I: Impietas]

[Intro]
Are you against me or are you with me?
Are you with me?
Are you with me?

[Part II: Deathwish]

[Verse]
Is it a deathwish to doze off helpless?
Leave myself at the mercy of you
At the mercy of you
And I be needing my sleep in peace
Need to trust you
At the mercy of you

[Breakdown]
You
At the, at the, at the
At the, yeah, at the
At the, at the the

rushes:
[Verse: Frank Ocean and Jazmine Sullivan]
Gonna be somebody, oh I follow
Oh and it's so cloudy
Running showers and the mist so fly
Enough time to know, know nothing at all
Oh I see the lines, there's two lines (walls)
You'll live a life anew
Tell me what you need from me? Gas money?
And I did what I needed to, to be kind
Cut your teeth on sheets in Paris
Hope the water's deep enough
It's a rush to the head
We've been here before (It's just like the water)
The first time is not the past time
I ain't felt this way in years
First, I was rushing for a wait
This time I'm waiting for a rush
(Oh, help me up off my feet)
Infatuation's your rush
(Help me, help me, help me off my feet, yeah
Do you wish you were me?)
Keep pushing on ‘em, never let ‘em stop (Do you wish you were me?)
All what happens to be, now it happens to me, upon his feet
Twin peaking, highs and lows, we shaded off and on
Bygones but we're still here, ride around in my two wheels
I love the way you make me feel
(What happens to me)
Bet you wish you was me
(You, just you and me)
(I need some help on my feet)
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
I be up to my feet
I wake up feeling weak
Wake me up in a week
(It’s like drivin’ round) (Stroke me, suck me, pipe me down)
(Two is a crowd, quieting down)
(Bite me down, pad me down, do whatever to fly me down)
It don't matter, pipe it down
Two is a crowd, quieting down

[Outro: Frank Ocean]
What stays and what- what's gone and what's here still
And what's here still
Riding my two wheels
They're gone and you're still here, rid-
They're gone and you're still here, riding my two wheels
I love the way you make me feel

rushes to:
(instrumental)


higgs:
[Verse 1]
Saturdays involved making our entrances into life outside
We've been in this room too long
Recreation is keeping us self contained and aware
Of each other's forms
Still and in full strides just the same
Keeping us warm
Walking in straight lines
Talking to sleep at night
Coddled and pacified
By versions of mothers

[Refrain]
It's all new to me
It's all new to me
Having you around
It's all new to me
It's all new to me
Having you around the Higgs

[Verse 2]
What if we decide to live by choice?
All this time I knew
That average was something to fall back on after genius ends
I watch video; only difference is, it's flattened and remiss
Sparks of lightning storm behind wet faces
Slipped my pants back on and rewind it backward more
The tape stopped before I was back alone

[Bridge]
I'll be back before
The street lights on, before the daylight's gone
I was spoiled by lavish thoughts
They don't compare, no, not at all
And had this been the past I might not know
What to do with all
Of what you've showed
What you give, my words can’t hold
And if acts of God breaks us apart
Least we did ours

[Outro]
Turn back, turn back
Turn back, turn
Back, turn back, turn
If you've never been in love

mitsubishi sony:
[Intro]
That ain't really loud
Couldn't raise his voice 'cause his wind gone
Niggas sound like Reggie
(Already, ran through already
Nigga goin' in, fuck it)

[Verse]
Pray to the pipe, (fuck it) I slide deep inside
Not too deep, not too shallow, I'm mindful of size
She chock full of my swipe, like a capsule sealed tight
With that substance you need, start a family tonight
Big body Merc, LED lights and it's all overprice
The dollar been cheap than a bitch
Tuberose and tulips
On the boxes you're in, from the holes in your skin
Hit the road and get rich or stay home and get broke
It's your choice in the end
Yeah they watching my fence, like they next to my kin
Like they paid by the pope, got some priests by the door
Frisk the demons before they step into my glow
Oh my my
Get it, get it

device control reprise
Starts at 0:30 and ends at 0:51:

[Intro]
With this Apple appliance, you can capture live videos
Still motion pictures shot at high frequency
Blurring, blurring the line

Starts again at 38:48 and ends at 48:50:

[Chorus]
With this Apple appliance, you can capture live videos
Still motion pictures shot at high frequency
Blurring, blurring the line between still and motion
With this Apple device
You can blur the border between still and motion pictures
You can blur the border between still and motion pictures

[Verse]
With this Sony Telephone 4K video is in your palm
It is in your palm, in your palm
In your hand, in your hand
With your eyes, with your eyes
You can capture real 4K
With this Samsung telephone, we don't call it telephone
I think I saw billboards describing life interactivity
Life sharing, live posting, streaming off your videos
The new Samsung Galaxy allows you to livestream your life
Livestream your life, livestream your life
You can blur the border between still and motion pictures
You can still stream you life
Your life can be streamed
In endless communication
We all show interest in everybody's life
Your life can be streamed
Life, your life can be streamed
Life, life

[Chorus]
You can blur the border between still and motion pictures
You can blur the border between still and motion pictures
You can blur the border between still and motion pictures
You can blur the border
With this device, the border between still and motion pictures is absolutely blurred

[Outro]
Think of the possibilities, think of the possibilities
Think of the possibilities....with this...
Think of...the...possibilities
With this device, stream your life, it's possible
Streaming life in this device is possible
Streaming life in this device is possible
Streaming life in this device is possible
Streaming life in this device is possible
Streaming life in this device is possible
It's in your palm, dreams of pleasure in your hand
This device in your hand, streaming life in streams of pleasure
Blurred, still and motion, audio
Your life is an active stream of life
This stream of life, on this device
Is causing an interactive stream of life
This stream of life, on this device
Is causing a streamed life
A live stream of my life
Is caused by this device
By this device
An internet Scheiß
Ja, so ein großes device
Das schafft einen stream of life



@andreiserbanescu9511

Device Control — 00:28
At Your Best (You Are Love) (feat. James Blake, Jonny Greenwood, and the London Contemporary Orchestra) — 00:51
Alabama (feat. Sampha and Jazmine Sullivan) — 6:11
Mine (feat. Arca) — 7:37
U-N-I-T-Y — 8:07
Ambience 001: In A Certain Way — 11:01
Commes Des Garcons — 11:12
Ambience 002: Honeybaby — 12:11
Wither (feat. Alex G and Jazime Sullivan) — 12:51
Hublots (feat. Jazmine Sullivan) — 15:25
In Here Somewhere — 15:45
Slide On Me (feat. Alex G) — 18:57
Sideways — 22:07
Florida — 23:59
Deathwish (ASR) — 25:49
Rushes (feat. Alex G and Jazime Sullivan) — 26:33 ish?
Rushes To — 27:09
Higgs (feat. Alex G) — 32:44
Device Control — 38:43



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Device Control — 00:28

At Your Best (You Are Love) (feat. James Blake, Jonny Greenwood, and the London Contemporary Orchestra) — 00:51

Alabama (feat. Sampha and Jazmine Sullivan) — 6:11

Mine (feat. Arca) — 7:37

U-N-I-T-Y — 8:07

Ambience 001: In A Certain Way — 11:01

Commes Des Garcons — 11:12

Ambience 002: Honeybaby — 12:11

Wither (feat. Alex G and Jazime Sullivan) — 12:51

Hublots (feat. Jazmine Sullivan) — 15:25

In Here Somewhere — 15:45

Slide On Me (feat. Alex G) — 18:57

Sideways — 22:07

Florida — 23:59

Deathwish (ASR) — 25:49

Rushes (feat. Alex G and Jazime Sullivan) — 26:33 ish?

Rushes To — 27:09

Higgs (feat. Alex G) — 32:44

Device Control — 38:43

@pocketmarocket7135

Can you do time stamps?

@maclaynecredere5103

Time stamps would be the best if you ever get the chance thanks for the upload!

@DOC-A-THON-T.V.-HipHop

@@pocketmarocket7135 I try my friend

@DOC-A-THON-T.V.-HipHop

@@maclaynecredere5103 I try now

@jeremiahwalker7548

God bless you friend

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@most_mocha

I speak for this whole community when I say if he put this on spotify we'd be fine for another 5 years my guy.......

@phantomsnake3907

not if you've been listening to it for the past 4

@thealchemist1951

Lool we been listening to this for so many years already man

@jfrandy4978

Local files

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