Jessie Reyez "Figures" Official Lyrics & Meaning | Verified

For such a young career, singer-songwriter Jessie Reyez has had an interesting path to mainstream music. Her interest in music started with playing the guitar as a child in Toronto, then later writing her own music in high school. She left Canada for Miami after graduating, only to come home and pursue her dreams in 2014. This lead to her releasing the song “Figures” in 2016, which is currently at 16 million streams and counting on Spotify and 334,000 Soundcloud plays. “Figures” centers a heartbroken Reyez, wishing she could feel less embarrassed about dedicating herself to an untrustworthy lover.

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Ashley fucking Madison exist.
How ridiculous is that?

That's a site where
married people can go

and look for other people
that are willing to have affairs.

Ashley Madison is bullshit!
Okay? It's bullshit.

If you're in a marriage and you
don't want to do it? Then leave!

Don't put someone through that.
Why? Why not just be real?

You know when you breakup with someone
and you have memories in that city?

You don't want to be in that city
because then your heartbreak

is just hard to heal the wound
when you're in it.

I was depressed.

I was sad.

And I ended up staying up all night
being messed up and heartbroken.

You can't really rest.

So, I woke up late and went down
for the session and looked like hell.

My eyes were puffy.

It was just rough, man.

It's so ironic to have people
vibing with it

and supporting the music
from such a dark moment.

God has a sense of humor,
you know.

I was there. I didn't dip.
I was real life rider.

Even when bad shit went down
I didn't go nowhere.

In retrospect it feels like you shouldn't
be asking someone to change.

To be honest with you.

If someone was
asking you to change

something that's fundamental
to your character,

how would you feel?

Would you feel like, “Ok I'm going to
conform so you can love me,”

or would you feel like,
"Go find someone else.

There's gotta be
someone out there

that's going to see the beauty
in me that you don't see."

I wish I was a asshole like you
so that my skin wouldn't hurt so bad

when you did it to me.

And if someone is
putting you through it

and they're immune to
how much it's hurting you

and they're immune to
how much you're crying,

that's usually because they've
never fucking been through it.

Or usually because it's never
been done to them.

So you want to be
the one to teach them,

but it's not our job to be
someone else's karma

I will fuck the world!

I will fuck their friends.

I would put it on Facebook.

I would do all of that.

If I was a asshole,
but I'm not a asshole.

When you break up with someone
and then they leave your life

all you're really left
with is that wound.

And if you miss someone enough
and all you have is that wound left

sometimes you don't want
that wound to close up.

I'm the one that's real.

You're going to lose me and you don't
even realize how much of a rider I am?

You don't realize how honest I am?

Bye.

You ever had those apologies
where someone's like,

"Alright I'm sorry,"
and then they want to move on?

They might be sincere in wanting
to heal the problem and move on,

but for the future it's kind of like putting
a Band-Aid on something that's rotting.

You need to understand.

And understanding is like putting
alcohol on it and making sure.

Yeah! Fuck yeah
it's true, man!

That helped me
get over it too.

It was nice to know that so many
people were ready to be replacements.

I got a lot of messages which is
beautiful to get feedback from people,

but messages from
girls that were like,

"I'm going through it
and these are the words

that I don't know how to express.
I don't know how to say it."

Man there was this one girl that
she hit me and she was like,

"I was in the car with my boyfriend
and I stayed with him

after he cheated and it was
a big thing to go through."

And they were
driving in the car

and this song came on
and she goes, “He started crying.”

I was like,
“Oh man, that's sweet.”

That's so sweet that that
caused empathy in him

that I wish I could have evoked
in someone else before.

You know?

And that's helping her situation
and helping her get through it.

It's dope!