I Think I'm OKAY

* Single
* Album

"**I Think I'm OKAY**" by Machine Gun Kelly with YUNGBLUD and Travis Barker, released 7 June 2019, is the first single by Machine Gun Kelly with YUNGBLUD and Travis Barker as secondary artists. The song was later added onto Machine Gun Kelly's fourth studio album *Hotel Diablo*.

## Background

Machine Gun Kelly's producer already had the riff and the put together the instrumental for the song. He decided he wanted someone specific, vocal wise, on the song and thought about YUNGBLUD. He told his producers and described Harrison as *"this crazy British kid*" who would *"sound perfect on air"*. MGK had two verses on the song that were his, he threw away the second verse and asked Harrison in, Harrison listened to the instrumental and decided what he wanted to say, MGK noted that Harrison freestyled his entire verse, MGK explained: *"When I say free, I don’t mean like figuring it out over and over. I’m talking about, he walked into the booth and I’m like, “Dude, you got 10 minutes. Do you like this song? Can you think of anything?” And he was like, “Oh yeah, this is great. Like just put me in.” and he off the top of the head, came, “Roll me up. and smoke me, love.” He finished it. His verse was one long verse. That’s why I split it up. Like that altro is really part of his verse. He just freestyled a 10 minute riff."* After Harrison left, MGK FaceTimed him and told him that Travis Barker was putting down the drums for the track.

Whilst, YUNGBLUD provides his vocals and Travis Barker provides the drums for track, the song is about understanding that you mess up a lot and go outside of the normal behaviour society expects of you, taking a situation or a relationship that is good and then turning it into a bad one just by touching it, they both acknowledge a devastating and depressing thought that society makes you think when you are not perceived as quote-on-quote *normal*: *"somethings fucking wrong with me"*.

## Lyrics

[Chorus: Machine Gun Kelly]

Watch me take a good thing and fuck it all up in one night

Catch me, I'm the one on the run away from the headlights

No sleep, up all week, wasting time with people I don't like

I think something's fucking wrong with me

[Verse 1: Machine Gun Kelly]

Drown myself in alcohol, that shit never helps at all

I might say some stupid things tonight when you pick up this call

I've been hearing silence on the other side for way too long

I can taste it on my tongue, I can tell that something's wrong, but

I guess it's just my life and I can take it if I wanna

But I cannot hide in hills of California

Because these hills have eyes, and I got paranoia

I hurt myself sometimes, is that too scary for you?

[Chorus: Machine Gun Kelly and *YUNGBLUD*]

Watch me take a good thing and fuck it all up in one night

Catch me, I'm the one on the run away from the headlights

No sleep, up all week, wasting time with people I don't like

I think *that something's fucking wrong with me*

[Verse 2: YUNGBLUD]

Roll me up and smoke me, love

And we can fly into the night

Roll me up and smoke me, love

And we can fly into the night

You take drugs (Take drugs) to let go (Let go)

And figure it all out on your own

Take drugs (Take drugs) on gravestones (Gravestones)

To figure it all out on your own

[Chorus: Machine Gun Kelly and *YUNGBLUD*]

Watch me take a good thing and fuck it all up in one night

Catch me, I'm the one on the run away from the headlights

No sleep, up all week, wasting time with people I don't like

I think *that something's fucking wrong with me*

[Outro: YUNGBLUD, *Machine Gun Kelly*, **Both**]

Find me alone at midnight

Inside my mind, tryna get things right

*(Something's fucking wrong with me)*

They want to keep you calling

So you don't wake in the morning

*(Something's fucking wrong with me)*

**Goodnight, goodnight**

**Goodnight, goodnight, yeah** (Goodnight)

Find me alone at midnight **(Goodnight)**

Inside my mind, tryna get things right **(Goodnight)**

They want to keep you calling **(Goodnight)**

So you don't wake in the morning

## Verified Annotations

**On genius, Machine Gun Kelly annotated this song, verifying the meaning behind the lyrics.**

* He annotated two line of the chorus:
	+ **Watch me take a good thing and fuck it all up in one night** — *"The guitar riffs playing and there’s all these girls making drinks and things like that. And I freestyle this line where I’m like, “Watch me. Take a good thing and fuck it all up in one night.” And I’ll never forget all the girls looked at each other like, “Ah, fucking mood.” And that was the confirmation for me that we’re running with that as the first line. Every time I sit here, that first line play for someone that hasn’t heard the song and they’re always like, “Oh. Me last night.” Or like whatever. It’s just funny."*
	+ **No sleep, up all week, wasting time with people I don't like** — *"When I was recording Hotel Diablo, I couldn’t tell you 75% of the people that came through the studio’s names. That place was like open doors for the entire city of Los Angeles. It was so dark and I was just on a four-day bender and realized, “Eww, who are these people? Why am I wasting all these time with people I don’t like?” And that’s a lyric."*
* He annotated different lines of the first verse:
	+ **Drown myself in alcohol, that shit never helps at all / I might say some stupid things tonight when you pick up this call** — *"I am absolutely an infamous drunk, phone caller. For sure crossing the line. Calling who I shouldn’t be calling and saying things that are completely out of pocket."*
	+ **I've been hearing silence on the other side for way too long** — *"You ever really like somebody and you do something and ruin it and then they just ghost you? That’s the silence right there."*
	+ **I guess it's just my life and I can take it if I wanna** — *"I don’t think it just means what people think it means. I think a lot of people think it just immediately means it’s suicide or I think it’s really just like I can take back my life. You know? I can make my decisions. That’s one thing I would like to clear up. Everyone thinks that means suicide. This was like saying take your destiny into your own hands, Manifest what you want and make your life yours. So misconception cleared up."*
	+ **But I cannot hide in hills of California / Because these hills have eyes, and I got paranoia** — *"This song was really a lot about living in Los Angeles. You know what I mean? The city of angels, which is obviously a fucking joke, you know what I mean? Like it’s the city of demons, dude. The hills have eyes like everyone talks, everyone knows everyone’s business. Everyone is interested in all these other lives, but their own. It’s really just a reflection of living in Hollywood. Like there’s so many people interested in your life and your business and just everything travels around."*
	+ **I hurt myself sometimes, is that too scary for you?** — *"Saying, “I hurt myself sometimes, is that too scary for you?” it’s like breaking the bubble that is the non-reality of Los Angeles. Or Hollywood, I should say. Not really LA. I guess Hollywood more so. But yeah, it’s more so just like walking in the middle of Beverly Hills in a robe with a fucking knife and just being like, we bleed. None of you are gods."*
* He annotated the Outro:
	+ **Goodnight, goodnight / Goodnight, goodnight, yeah (Goodnight)** — *"A fun fact people may or may not know, but the end of the song is both he and I harmonizing singing good night, which was definitely My Chemical Romance’s inspired as far as their outros and intros and just song arrangement is really inspiring. I feel like there was a lot of that in our song just as fans and you know, wanting to give our generation some of that same feeling that we had. And we’d be like, what a weird concept. And it’s funny cause at the beginning of the album it’s me confronting all these problems. And then at the end of the album it’s me saying, “Hey, I think I’m okay. But you never have that period on the end of it. It’s just a dot, dot, dot. Because you think you’re okay.”"*

## Trivia

* The single was certified **Gold** by RIAA in December 2019. and then **Platinum** in July 2020.

## Buy/Stream

* YouTube
* Spotify
* Apple Music
* Tidal
* Deezer
* YouTube Music
* SoundCloud

## References

1. ↑ YouTube — "Machine Gun Kelly "I Think I'm OKAY" Official Lyrics & Meaning". Published 25 October 2019.
2. ↑ Genius — "I Think I'm OKAY lyrics". Published Unknown Date.
3. ↑ Alternative Press — "Machine Gun Kelly finally drops Travis Barker, YUNGBLUD collab". Published 6 June 2019.
4. ↑ Machine Gun Kelly — Genius Annotation (Chorus, 1)
5. ↑ Machine Gun Kelly — Genius Annotation (Chorus, 2)
6. ↑ Machine Gun Kelly — Genius Annotation (First Verse, 1)
7. ↑ Machine Gun Kelly — Genius Annotation (First Verse, 2)
8. ↑ Machine Gun Kelly — Genius Annotation (First Verse, 3)
9. ↑ Machine Gun Kelly — Genius Annotation (First Verse, 4)
10. ↑ Machine Gun Kelly — Genius Annotation (First Verse, 5)
11. ↑ Machine Gun Kelly — Genius Annotation (Outro)
12. ↑ 12.0 12.1 RIAA — "Gold & Platinum - RIAA". Published 7 July 2020. Archived