Pretty Sweet

“Pretty Sweet” marks one of the bolder moments on Frank Ocean’s sophomore album Blonde, with an initially unsettling change of pace where Frank is singing wildly over a chaotic mixture of strings and synthesizers. The sonic experimentation sets the tone for the lyrics, which seem to purposely lack structure, further accentuating the chaotic and asymmetric flow of the song. The CD version of this track that came with the ‘Boys Don’t Cry’ magazine comes with a different version of this track in which some lyrics are different.

[Intro] Now, to the edge I'll race To the end I'll make it All the risk, I'll take it Head bang with my faux friends We pour a taste out for the dead This is the blood, the body, the life right now The height right now Might be what I need Might be what I need Said you wanna hurt me now You can't hurt me now That might be what you need [Verse] What it means to be alive on this side (Said you wanna kill me now) On this side (Don't let me down) On this side (Down, down) Fuck the other side I'm on this side, I'm on this side, I'm on this side How it feels to have arrived I'm inside, I'm inside Those are my niggas for life Mothers of us be kind To the fathers on whom we rely Fathers of us be kind To the mothers on whom we rely Ah-hah, ah-hah, ah-hah, ah-hah Ah-hah, ah-hah, ah-hah, ah-hah [Outro] We know you're sugar We know you're sweet like a sucka Pretty sweet, pretty sweet