[Verse 1:]
Honest where I start from
I try and impart my wisdom
A combination of truth and fear
That’s the way it’s always been
My father and his before him
At times we hurt the …
[Verse 1]
Oh, pity me
I’m so alone and so blue
My friends have all gone away
Their friendliness too
[Pre-Chorus]
It was I on my own
With no need to belong
And I wanted to die
That’s when …
[Verse 1]
Got some money, got some cash
I’m rich and now I’m sad
And I wonder if I’m sad about the money that I have
Got some boats on my plane
At the hotel …
[Intro]
Yeah
Polishin’ a goddamn sword, you know what I’m sayin’?
Polishin’ a sword (Uh, uh, uh, uh)
Concrete Family, Concrete Industries, Concrete Boys up, always, never down
(And this beat from Cash, not from …
When the only sound in the empty street
Is the heavy tread of the heavy feet
That belong to a lonesome cop
I open shop
When the moon so long has been gazing down
On …
If you could take my pulse right now
It would feel just like a sledgehammer
If you could feel my heart beat now
It would hit you like a sledgehammer1
I don’t admit it
I play it cool
But every minute
That I’m with you2
I feel the fever and I won’t lie
I break a sweat
My body’s telling
All the secrets I ain’t told you yet3
Oh oh
I struggle to contain
Whoa oh
The love that’s in my veins
Oh oh
And how it circulates
Oh oh4
If you could take my pulse right now
It would feel just like a sledgehammer
If you could feel my heart beat now
It would hit you like a sledgehammer
You’re taken over the beat of my body
You just don’t let up, don’t let up
You’re taken over the beat of my body
But you lift me up, lift me up5
If you take my pulse right now
It would feel just like a sledgehammer
So close together
So far apart
You’re turning me on
And my fire’s waitin’ for your spark6
Oh oh
I struggle to contain
Whoa oh
The love that’s in my veins
Oh oh
And how it circulates
Oh oh
If you could take my pulse right now
It would feel just like a sledgehammer
If you could feel my heart beat now
It would hit you like a sledgehammer
You’re taken over the beat of my body
You just don’t let up, don’t let up
You’re taken over the beat of my body
But you lift me up, lift me up
If you take my pulse right now
It would feel just like a sledgehammer
The truth is out
No stopping now
I’m getting closer
I’ve had enough
Undress my love
I’m coming over7
If you take my pulse right now
It would feel just like a sledgehammer, oh
And if you take my pulse right now
It would feel just like a sledgehammer, hammer, oh
If you take my pulse
If you could take my pulse right now
It would feel just like a sledgehammer
If you could feel my heart beat now
It would hit you like a sledgehammer
You’re taken over the beat of my body
You just don’t let up, don’t let up
You’re taken over the beat of my body
But you lift me up, lift me up
If you take my pulse right now
It would feel just like a sledgehammer
A sledgehammer is a massive, heavy tool used to smash structures like brick walls with kinetic force. In other words, Fifth Harmony is singing about a thumping pulse.
This stanza reveals why the pulse is so strong. One’s pulse tends to increase when around a significant other or somebody that is romantically enticing.
Sweats and a heavy pulse are among the many outward signs that someone is attracted to another person.
This stanza is about the connection between love and the physiological things going on in one’s body that prove someone is enticed by another person.
These lyrics indicate that the loved is also attracted to the lover. The feeling is mutual, which gets the pulse beating even harder.
A fire needs a spark to be kindled properly. Once the fire is kindled though, it can spread rapidly. In other words, unless there is a mutually desirable relationship, the effects of love won’t flourish.
“Undress my love / I’m coming over” links the romantic feelings to sexual pleasure.
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