You and me, why are we living in retrograde
Loving me, losing me, driving without a break
Going full speed ahead never without a fight
Running red lights
Running red lights
Oh, Oh, no turning …
[Chorus]
Trust issues got me being cautious
Not friendly – niggas rolling swishers
Do I wanna hit it – not really
Blood in the streets for any one of my niggas
I’m ridin solo – …
[Hook:]
I’m kissing styrofoam
You know what I be on
Thats what I be on
She know what I be on
Who know what I be on
Thats what I be on
Baby move along
I keep moving …
He’s still driving that 1970 hand-me-down truck
And he’s still wearing that red and black jersey
Waiting for the band to start up
He’s still showing up twenty late, finding hearts and rules …
You know I’m gonna hit it on the radio
You know I’m gonna put it on my video
I know you gon’ be turning up the volume
I know you wanna split me …
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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