88rising & NIKI – Split (Audio, Lyrics, Video)

Watch the video for 88rising & NIKI’s “Split” track co-produced by The Donuts, Bēkon & Jacob Ray. Listen, stream, buy, read the lyrics, mp3 download.

88rising & Niki Split

“Split” was first announced by Niki on October 18th, 2021 through her twitter account when she said

hello! i have a song coming out 11/10 called “split”! i wrote it in 2019 w
@jacobraymusic
! it was initially written for moonchild but i took it off bc it felt way too personal & special & needed its own life. i wrote it ab forever having to split myself between indo & LA

On November 9th, 2021 Niki announced through her Instagram story she would be delaying the track by a week in hopes of the track getting more attention after the buzz from the recent Head In The Clouds festival died down

88rising & NIKI – Split (prod. The Donuts, Bēkon & Jacob Ray)

Lyrics

[Verse 1]
It’s a West Coast winter, sun’s still a furnace
So I keep tanning, just never on purpose
I’m saturated in equal parts sun and doubt
So I turn the fan on high and hope I sweat it out

[Verse 2]
Christmas is coming, I miss my mama
Well, least I got my daddy, but he’s in Jakarta
And there, it’s raining, while here, it’s dry as bone
Kinda wish I knew what I meant when I’d say, “I miss home”

[Chorus]
Guess I’m forever caught between two worlds
Right foot rock, left foot hard place, head and heart at war
I do my best between addresses
Wish I were on either side of the foreign wall
Oh, always part of me missing, but no one sees a difference
‘Cause I split them all (Ooh, ooh)

[Verse 3]
Spread so thin, I’m low on emotional bandwidth
The voice in my head speaks a different language
And where I live, they believe you only have yourself
But where I’m from, you’re taught to be somebody else
So hellos are short, goodbyes are only half farewells

[Chorus]
Oh, I guess I’m forever caught between two worlds
Right foot rock, left foot hard place, head and heart at war
I do my best between addresses
Wish I were on either side of the foreign wall
Always part of me missing
But no one sees the difference
‘Cause I split them all