Fake Love Lyric - Drake
Fake Love Lyric - Drake
Yeah, yeah
I've been down so long it look like up to me
They look up to me
I got fake people showin' fake love to me
Straight up to my face, straight up to my face
I've been down so long it look like up to me
They look up to me
I got fake people showin' fake love to me
Straight up to my face, straight up to my face
Somethin' ain't right when we talkin'
Somethin' ain't right when we talkin'
Look like you hidin' your problems
Really you never was all in
No you can't son me, you won't never get to run me
Just when shit look out of reach, I reach back like one, three
Like one, three, yeah
That's when they smile in my face
Whole time they wanna take my place
Whole time they wanna take my place
Whole time they wanna take my place
Yeah, I know they wanna take my place
I can tell that love is fake
I don't trust a word you say
How you wanna click up after your mistakes?
Look you in the face and it's just not the same
I've been down so long it look like up to me
They look up to me
I got fake people showin' fake love to me
Straight up to my face, straight up to my face
I've been down so long it look like up to me
They look up to me
I got fake people showin' fake love to me
Straight up to my face, straight up to my face
Yeah, straight up to my face, tryna play it safe
Vibe switch like night and day, I can see it like right away
I came up, you changed up, I caught that whole play
Since then, things never been the same
That's when they smile in my face
Whole time they wanna take my place
Whole time they wanna take my place
Whole time they wanna take my place
Yeah, I know they wanna take my place
I can tell that love is fake
(I can tell that love is fake)
I don't trust a word you say
(I don't trust a word you say)
How you wanna click up after your mistakes?
(How you wanna click up after your mistakes?)
Look you in the face and it's just not the same
I've been down so long it look like up to me
They look up to me
I got fake people showin' fake love to me
Straight up to my face, straight up to my face
I've been down so long it look like up to me
They look up to me
I got fake people showin' fake love to me
Straight up to my face, straight up to my face
Skrrt (skrrt, skrrt)
Fake Love Review
A running theme in Drake songs is that friendly faces aren’t always real friends. At first, it was just a side effect of his visibility, people trying to hop into the orbit of his influence. In the opening line of Take Care closer “The Ride,” he scoffed, “You won’t feel me ’til everybody say they love you but it’s not love.” By If You’re Reading This It’s Too Late, though, he had an even more cynical worldview, chastising female guests about using his Wi-Fi to diss their girlfriends on “Energy.” The idea that those hovering closest to you might actually be insincere is a common Drake trope. And for someone as petty as Drake can be, it’s an effective tactic used to position himself as the “realest” and most blameless person in the room. Being the target of pretenders is the central conceit of “Fake Love,” which finds Drake calling out the many frauds among him (“whole time they wanna take my place,” he repeats), pinpointing the artificial.
“Fake Love” is infectious and vaguely familiar, with top notes of several songs in the Drake canon. It’s no surprise that this is the most comfortable he’s sounded in some time. After more than a year on the offensive, Drake is back in the role that best suits him: playing the victim. Over faux steel drum bongs, bass thuds, and splotchy percussion that moves at a half-strut, similar to “Hotline Bling,” he makes full use of his tone. It’s so distinctly pleasant for a song about a discourtesy so nasty. Produced by Vinylz and Frank Dukes, two major contributors to IYRTITL, “Fake Love” is a parade of crooned accusations: “How you wanna clique up after your mistakes?” he asks. But when friends become enemies it can send you spiraling, doubting everyone. So Drake yearns to make the distinction clear. Who among us can’t identify?
