Wet – Bound (ft. Blood Orange) (Audio, Lyrics, Video)

Watch the Gia Coppola-directed video for “BOUND” by Wet and Blood Orange. Listen, stream, buy, read the lyrics, mp3 download.

Wet Bound By Gia Coppola

In a couple of weeks, the R&B-pop trio Wet will return with their new album Letter Blue. For the past few months, Wet have shared a bunch of that album’s tracks as singles: “On Your Side,” “Larabar,” “Clementine,” “Far Cry.” And while Letter Blue includes songwriting contributions from peers like Toro Y Moi and Buddy Ross, there’s only one featured guest on the whole album. That guest is Blood Orange mastermind Dev Hynes, who co-wrote the song “Bound” with Wet leader Kelly Zutrau. Today, we get to hear it.

Given the histories of everyone involved, you will not be shocked to learn that “Bound” sounds like a hazy, soft-focus bedroom version of ’90s R&B. Hynes produced the track and played all the instruments on it, but he never takes on the lead vocals. Instead, Hynes mutters quietly underneath Zutrau’s thoughtful melodies. “Bound” has a funky drum track and some sleepily sleek hooks, and it shows an effortless fusion of the complementary Wet and Blood Orange styles.

Gia Coppola, Hollywood scion and frequent Blood Orange collaborator, directed the “Bound” video. (Dev Hynes has scored Coppola’s two features, Palo Alto and Mainstream.) In the clip, Zutrau walks through a rainy Los Angeles and sings to the projected image of Dev Hynes. Check it out below.

Wet – Bound by Gia Coppola (ft. Blood Orange)

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Lyrics

[Intro: Blood Orange]
What, what?
Huh, what?
Yeah, the last time, it’s another time
Another time, what?
Bring it back to me
Yeah, yeah

[Verse 1: Wet & Blood Orange]
Bound to you had me tied (What, what and what and what?)
Never even had to try (Talk, talk, talk, talk)
What’s it like to never mind
When no one seemed to care? (Yeah-yeah, drop it, drop it, drop it, ayy, yeah)
Close my eyes and hold on tight
Close my eyes while we take flight (Yeah, lay it down to me, yeah, down to me)
Hardly even on my side (What, what, what?)
And no one seems to care (Step aside, drop it down, who is that?
Select time, break it down to me)
[Chorus: Wet & Blood Orange]
And I’m screaming in the palm of my hand
Waiting for another chance to be bland
What seems worse?
Trying not to care (In your city, yeah, drop down, who is that?
Select time, bring it back to me)

[Verse 2: Wet & Blood Orange]
Bound to you, blood and time (Yeah, yeah, yeah)
Throw me out another line
What’s it like on the inside? (What it like, what it like)
You never had to try (Let me see it, yeah, yeah, select the time, bring it)

[Chorus: Wet & Blood Orange]

And I’m screaming in the palm of my hand
Waiting for another chance to be bland
What seems worse?
Trying not to care (In your city, yeah, drop down, who is that?
Select time, bring it back to me)
And I’m screaming in the palm of my hands
Waiting for a love that never could land
What seems worse?
Trying not to care

[Instrumental Outro]