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Gracie Abrams - Risk
[Verse 1]
Look at me now
Said I wouldn't do it, but I hunted you down
Know you had a girl, but it didn't work out
Know you bought a house, but you had to move out, and
I'm not proud
Guess I'm just scared of you shootin' it down
You can just talk, and I'll stare at your mouth
You could be bad, but I wanna find out, and
[Pre-Chorus]
And I wake up in the middle of the night
With the light on, and I feel like I could die
'Cause you're not here, and it don't feel right
'Cause you're not here
[Chorus]
God, I'm actually invested
Haven't even met him
Watch this be the wrong thing, classic
God, I'm jumpin' in the deep end
It's more fun to swim in
Heard the risk is drowning, but I'm gonna take it
[Post-Chorus]
I'm gonna take it
Oh-oh, oh, woah-oh
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Isn't it fun thinkin' I'm right when I'm probably wrong?
Holding my breath like I met someone
Knowing damn well that I haven't been touched by you
In my head, you're in the car, and you're comin' to me
And you get to my door, and you can't even speak
But I think that it's sweet, yeah, I think that you're sweet
[Pre-Chorus]
And I wake up (I wake up) in the middle of the night (Night)
With the light on, and you're not here
[Chorus]
God, I'm actually invested
Haven't even met him
Watch this be the wrong thing, classic
God, I'm jumpin' in the deep end
It's more fun to swim in
Heard the risk is drowning, but I'm gonna take it
[Bridge]
I'm gonna bend 'til I break
And you'll be my favorite mistake
I wish you could hold me, here shakin'
You're the risk, I'm gonna take it
Why aren't you here in my bedroom?
Hopelessly boring without you
Too soon to tell you "I love you"
Too soon to tell you "I love you"
[Pre-Chorus]
God, I'm actually invested
Think I really want this
I'm not even kidding
No, I'm actually invested
Haven't even met yet
Wish that I was kidding, I'm not and I hate it
[Chorus]
God, I'm actually invested
Haven't even met yet
Watch this be the wrong thing, classic
God, I'm jumpin' in the deep end
It's more fun to swim in
Heard the risk is drowning, but I'm gonna take it
[Outro]
(Oh-oh-oh-oh, oh)
I'm gonna take it
Heard the risk is drowning, but I'm gonna take it
Too soon to tell you "I love you"
Too soon to tell you "I love you"
Too soon to tell you "I love you"
You're the risk, I'm gonna take it
"Risk" is a song recorded by American singer-songwriter Gracie Abrams for her second studio album, The Secret of Us. It was released on May 1, 2024, through Interscope Records, as the lead single from the album. Abrams wrote the song with Audrey Hobert and produced it with her frequent collaborator Aaron Dessner. An accompanying music video for "Risk", directed by Hobert, premiered alongside the song. Gracie anxiously pleads for her the success of her romantic adventure. Singing in a cadence similar to a person in a panic attack, or simply confessing their love, she outlines the risks associated with her pursuing this fling, and mentions how no matter what, she wants to be in a relationship with them. ““Risk” is inspired by the mania before you actually even know someone, where you get it all sick and twisted in your head and feel like you have a fever and can’t control your body and mind. [“Risk is also implicitly an ode to”] the beautiful quality of best friends enabling each other’s insanity.“ — via Spin “I don’t think I’ve ever laughed harder writing anything. Audrey Hobert, who is my, uh, best friend and also my roommate and, uh, my cowriter on a handful of these songs, she and I had truly the time of our lives. Like we were in the kitchen/living room on our couch in tears of laughter and, kind of, I think, just excitement. Getting to a place where this song, as soon as you wrote the hook, we were both, you know, reasonably addicted to it. And woke up, you know, in the middle of the night, with the melody in our heads. Woke up first thing in the morning, we’d come down the stairs like, you know, belting the song.“ —Abrams' commentary for “Risk” off Apple Music’s Track by Track: Gracie Abrams on “This is Us.” "Risk" peaked at number 94 on the US Billboard Hot 100, while also charting moderately in the main charts of Australia, Canada, Ireland, and the United Kingdom. It received a gold certification in the former two countries. Abrams performed "Risk" on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon and The Today Show, and included it in the set list to The Secret of Us Tour (2024–2025) and Taylor Swift's The Eras Tour (2024).
