XO

## Song by Lupe Fiasco featuring Troi Irons

"**XO**" is a song by Lupe Fiasco, released as the 13th track from his seventh studio album, *Drogas Wave* (2018). It features guest vocals from Troi Irons. Fiasco said over Twitter the meaning: "basically a depressed runaway hooked on Molly who gets abducted by aliens who heal her by wiping her memory and turning her into a computer."

## Lyrics

**Lyrics**
[Intro: Troi Irons]

You and me, I'm curious to see

Could we be everything you need?

You don't have to go, go, go

We can be alone, alone, together in this

[Verse 1: Lupe Fiasco]

Yeah, uh, yeah

She just walks, and talks to the noise in her heads

Safe in the middle but destroys at the edge

Burns up the nest and poisons the eggs

When the sound hits the ground, the tone seems to beg

For the dark, wanna dart but it's too hard to march

When your heart's nailed down to the "start, on your mark"

Then a spark but she parked, too caught up in the blitz

To risk ripping them apart

So she wanna stay, on a high tonight to survive

The eyes pry wide down the manor

Opening the face to be go washed and awash in the glow

Of the faraway souls of downtown Atlanta

My report, a million similar souls signaling

Hoping to be a synonym for now

Put in a pill again when it drowns, when the night comes 'round

And the sky opens up and the lights come, down

[Pre-Chrorus: Troi Irons]

Fluorescent, iridescent

Are you gonna take it all away?

Fluorescent, luminescent

Are you gonna take it all away?

[Chorus: Troi Irons]

You and me, ecstasy (X-XO)

You and me, ecstasy (XO)

'Round and 'round, we can't slow down

Come too far, we can't stop now (X-X-XO)

You and me, ecstasy (X-XO)

You and me, ecstasy (XO)

'Round and 'round, we can't slow down

Gone too far, we can't stop now (X-X-XO)

[Verse 2: Lupe Fiasco]

Uhh, she just runs, and comes to the back of the beginning

Which once was the happiness of winning

The killing contrived the inner vibe, tried to fill her in size

But didn't survive the attack of other feelings

Cracking at the seals, life-hacking it, backing it

Something real as the key to the ease of the bees in the ceilings

Fauceting all the things down from the dark clouds

The valve house, canals, the foul, the undependents 'til it breaks

The surge, tsunamis down advantages

Knocking down establishments, washing out the catalyst of fate

Weight filling the room, moon, the moon

And the wanderlust stuck in downtown Los Angeles

(A report!) A billion similar souls signaling

Hoping to be a synonym for now

Put in a pill again when it drowns when the night comes 'round

And the sky opens up and the lights come, down

[Pre-Chorus: Troi Irons]

Fluorescent, iridescent

Are you gonna take it all away

Fluorescent, luminescent

Are you gonna take it all away

[Chorus: Troi Irons]

You and me, ecstasy (X-XO)

You and me, ecstasy (XO)

'Round and 'round, we can't slow down

Gone too far, we can't stop now (X-X-XO)

[Bridge: Troi Irons]

They're right where I stay

Surround us

In the revend night babe

They found us

Fluorescent, iridescent

Are you gonna take it all away?

Fluorescent, luminescent

Are you gonna take it all away?

[Verse 3: Lupe Fiasco]

Uhh, they combed Earth to seek out a soul to research

Identify the atoms united to make it work

Then wreck it, re-order, re-organize and perfect it

Then let it, forget it, then stepping into the method

Let it shed its aesthetics into ascetic

State of ethics vetted to better his new genetics

Medics, headed where warfare's kinetic

The square's self aware and dares to self edit

And pregnant, batters, data no longer matters

Platters shatters scatters the fragments all on fanatics

Damage, managed to still be able to feel

Some of the long lost magic of downtown Damascus

Infinity, similar souls signaling

Hoping to be a synonym for now

Put in a pill again when it drowns when the night comes 'round

And the sky opens up and the lights come, down

[Chorus: Troi Irons]

You and me, ecstasy (X-XO)

You and me, ecstasy (XO)

'Round and 'round, we can't slow down

Gone too far, we can't stop now (X-X-XO)

You and me, ecstasy (X-XO)

You and me, ecstasy (XO)

'Round and 'round, we can't slow down

Gone too far, we can't stop now (X-X-XO)

## References

1. ↑ "Lupe Fiasco (@LupeFiasco)". *Twitter*. October 2, 2018.