"Open Arms" yang dinyanyikan SZA bersama Travis Scott, bercerita tentang keputusan untuk meninggalkan orang yang dicintai.
SZA berduet kembali dengan penyanyi rap AS Travis Scott untuk membuat lagu "Open Arms", setelah berkolaborasi dalam lagu "Power is Power" bersama The Weeknd (lagu tema untuk serial TV "Game of Thrones" musim ke-8), hingga "Love Galore" (untuk album SZA bertajuk CTRL/ 2017). Lagu "Open Arms" telah didengarkan lebih dari 61 juta kali di YouTube dan 480,6 juta kali di Spotify.
SZA, diucapkan sebagai "siz-za", merupakan nama panggung dari peraih Grammy Solana Rowe. Nama itu diambil dari Supreme Alphabet, sebuah konsep yang diperkenalkan oleh gerakan pemeluk agama Islam keturunan Afro-Amerika Five-Percent Nation untuk menginterpretasi huruf latin.
S pada Supreme Alphabet adalah sovereign (berdaulat) atau savior (penyelamat), Z adalah zig-zag (ilmu, kebijaksanaan atau pengertian), dan A adalah Allah.
S pada Supreme Alphabet adalah sovereign (berdaulat) atau savior (penyelamat), Z adalah zig-zag (ilmu, kebijaksanaan atau pengertian), dan A adalah Allah.
Lirik lagu SZA dan Travis Scott "Open Arms"
[Intro: Norma Rowe]
When you do your best you ca—, I done told you[Intro: Norma Rowe]
When you do your best, hell, that's all you can do
You and me and anybody else
So they always start talkin'
[Verse 1: SZA]
Runnin' away from where I'm from
Never can stay with no one
Lovin' you almost feels like something
When no one's around me
You lost and found me
I was surrounded
With open, open, open
[Chorus: SZA & Travis Scott]
Open arms (Ooh)
Open arms
You keep me open, I'm so devoted
You keep me open (Ooh)
Open arms
I'm so devoted to you, to you, to you
[Verse 2: SZA]
Spent your life bein' hopeless
Chokin' on insecurity
I know all this is bad
But please put a leash on me anyway
Who needs self-esteem anyway?
I hate myself to make you stay
Push me away, I'll be right here
With open, open, open
[Chorus: SZA & Travis Scott]
Open arms (Ooh)[Chorus: SZA & Travis Scott]
Open arms
You keep me open, I'm so devoted
You keep me open
Open arms
I'm so devoted to you, to you, to you
[Verse 3: Travis Scott]
No matter what come between us, yeah, I decided
I'm forever ridin', we forever guided
Pull up on an opp, hit his curb up, slide it (Brr)
Notice when you mad, ain't no words, just silence
Drew my favorite color, now you seein' every shade of me
You say that I'm trippin', I hit back like, "Where you takin' me?"
Locked in for life, on God, no replacin' me
Consequences, repercussions, karma keep on changin' me
For you, I try
Face card, valid ID
C'est la vie, go to Paris
It ain't five-star, it ain't me
Over-solid, keep it concrete
I'ma bet it on you, a whole fee
Just don't switch sides
I could fire piece your wrist, AP
Through the ups and downs and all the heat
Take a turn and tell you what it be
Backshots make you feel relief
Anything, just don't you ever leave
[Outro: SZA, Travis Scott, & Both]
I guess I gotta go (Ooh)
[Outro: SZA, Travis Scott, & Both]
I guess it's time to go
I gotta let you go
(I'm so devoted)
You keep me open
Gotta let you go, gotta let you go
I gotta let you go, I must
You're the only one that's holdin' me down (Ooh)
You're the only one holdin' me down (Only one)
'Cause I'm the only one that's holdin' me down