I'm A Mess

Bebe Rexha

Lyrics

Everything's been so   up here lately
Pretty   he don't wanna be my baby
Oh, he don't love me, he don't love me,
He don't love me, he don't love me
But that's OK
'Cause I love me, yeah, I love me, yeah,
I love me, yeah, I love myself anyway (hey)

Everything's gonna be  
Everything's gonna be OK
It's gonna be a good, good life
That's what my   say
Everything's gonna be alright
Everything's gonna be just  
It's gonna be a good, good life

I'm a mess, I'm a  
I'm a hater, I'm a  
I'm a mess for your love, it ain't new
I'm obsessed, I'm embarrassed
I don't trust no one   us
I'm a mess for your love, it ain't new

Nobody   up unless I'm paying
Have a drink on me   to the failing
Oh, he don't love me, he don't love me
He don't love me, he don't love me
But that's okay
Cause I love me, yeah, I love me
Yeah, I love me, yeah, I love myself anyway
Hey

Everything's gonna be alright
Everything's gonna be okay
It's gonna be a good, good life
That's what my therapist say
Everything's gonna be alright
Everything's gonna be just fine
It's gonna be a good, good life

I'm a mess, I'm a loser
I'm a hater, I'm a user
I'm a mess for your love, it ain't new
I'm obsessed, I'm embarrassed
I don't trust no one around us
I'm a mess for your love, it ain't new

Everything's gonna be alright, alright
Everything's gonna be just fine, just fine
It's gonna be a good, good life

I'm a mess, I'm a loser
I'm a hater, I'm a user
I'm a mess for your love, it ain't new
I'm obsessed, I'm embarrassed
I don't trust no one around us
I'm a mess for your love, it ain't new
Legend

Meaning

Rexha explained to Billboard that she was seeing a guy she really liked. One day, she was sitting in her apartment in West Hollywood, stalking him on Instagram because he hadn’t responded to any of her text messages.

“I see that he's dating another girl and it was like the worst feeling ever,” she tells Billboard. “And of course, the day I find out about this guy is the day I have my session with [songwriter] Justin Tranter.” Although she was in no mood to write music and would have preferred staying home and eating pizza while watching sad movies and crying, she knew it would look bad to not show up at the studio.

Rexha arrived at the studio, apologizing to Tranter saying, “I’m sorry, but I’m a mess.” He replied, “Really? That’s perfect. That’s the name of the song,” asking her to explain exactly how she was feeling. “It just kind of came and we wrote the song super quick,” Rexha adds. “It was like literally two hours. And the second I heard my voice on the record, I just knew it was magic.”

Source: www.billboard.com

Vocabulary

Show Up

informal (arrive, be present)
If a guy who you know likes you and he shows up to your work does that mean he likes you more than you think?
My ex showed up at my house